Han Zhanwen

Han was born in 1965 in Shunping County, Hebei. He completed his bachelor's degree from Hebei University in 1984 and earned a master's degree from Yunnan Astronomical Observatory in 1987.^[1] After that, he continued his study at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and got his doctor's degree in 1995. He did post-doctoral research at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei.

On August 3, 2012, he was appointed director of Yunnan Astronomical Observatory.

Han was elected a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences on November 28, 2017.^[2]

In 2018 he became an Associate Editor of the Journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.

• 2016 Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize for Science and Technology.^[3]