Prof. Xu Jinchao Receives Humboldt Prize of Germany

Prof. Jinchao Xu, the director of the Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics at Xiangtan University who holds the Furong Prof.ship in Hunan Province principally, has received the Humboldt Prize in 2005 for Senior U.S. Scientists from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Bonn, Germany, in honor of his achievements in computational-mathematics research and teaching. The award cites Xu as “one of the most renowned scientists in the field of numerical mathematics in the world”, and notes that “his work also has had a significant impact on numerous other fields of research”.

Prof. Xu Jinchao earned his bachelor’s degree at Xiangtan University in 1982 and his master’s degree at Peking University in 1984, both in China. He earned his doctoral degree at Cornell University in 1989. He is the director of the Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics at Xiangtan University in China from 1997 and now the director of the Penn State Center for Computational Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University in U.S.

Humboldt Prize was set up by original Federal German Government in 1972 and grants to scientists and scholars from U.S. with internationally recognized academic qualifications. The award subjects cover mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, engineering science, computer science and geoscience.