Source: School of Atmospheric Sciences
Written by: School of Atmospheric Sciences
Photo by: Cai Shanshan
Edited by: Wang Dongmei

On the morning of August 28, 2016, Lv Daren, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and distinguished atmospheric physicist, was appointed as Chair Professor of Sun Yat-sen University and Director of the Academic Committee of School of Atmospheric Sciences. Secretary Chen Chunsheng, President Luo Jun, Academician Zhang Peizhen, Vice President Wei Minghai, as well as professors from the School of Atmospheric Sciences attended the appointment ceremony on Zhuhai Campus.

At the appointment ceremony, Vice President Wei Minghai introduced the academic experiences and achievements of Academician Lv Daren.

President Luo Jun expressed his admiration for Academician Lv Daren’s rigorous attitude and outstanding achievements. He stressed that atmospheric science is one of the disciplines under key construction at SYSU. The appointment of Academician Lv Daren as Director of the Academic Committee of School of Atmospheric Sciences will greatly promote the scientific research in atmospheric exploration and space weather at the School.

President Luo Jun, Academician Lv Daren and Professor Dong Wenjie, Dean of School of Atmospheric Sciences, jointly signed the Chair Professor appointment agreement. President Luo Jun presented Academician Lv Daren with the letter of appointment for Director of the Academic Committee of School of Atmospheric Sciences.

Lv Daren is the atmospheric physicist and researcher at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He obtained bachelor's degree from the Department of Geophysics, Peking University in 1962 and obtained master's degree from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1966. He did collaborative research in the United States NOAA/ERL from 1981 to 1982, and was promoted to researcher in 1985. He is engaged in Atmospheric and Environmental Earth remote sensing, atmospheric radiative transfer, middle atmosphere and solar-terrestrial physics, ecology and climate interaction detection and other aspects of the theoretical models currently. He won eight awards, including the third prize of National Natural Science Award (Atmospheric microwave radiation and remote sensing principle research in 1989), the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award (The Antarctic scientific expedition research in 1998), outstanding achievement award and natural science award of Chinese Academy of Sciences and other ministries, etc. He has served as member of the aerospace field expert committee of National High Technology Research and Development Program (863 program), member of the International Radiation Commission (IRC, since 1988), member of the International Upper Atmospheric Meteorology (ICMA, since 1992), member of the Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP), director of Chinese Society of Space Research, deputy director of the atmospheric physics committee of China Meteorological Society, deputy director of the atmospheric science terms approval committee of China Meteorological Society, expert of the Department of Earth Sciences Advisory Panel of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, etc.