Jin Hongguang

Jin Hongguang was born in Changchun, Jilin Province on May 9, 1957. Both of his parents are Korean medical doctors. He grew up in local Korean schools. In 1978, he took the National College Entrance Examination after the Cultural Revolution. Despite the language barriers, he was admitted to Northeast Electric Power University.^[1][2]

After graduation in 1982, he became a researcher at Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and completed his master's degree there from August 1986 to January 1990. In 1991, he went to Tokyo Institute of Technology with a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) scholarship, and obtained his doctorate in 1994. Afterwards, he became a Tokyo Tech Associate Professor.^[3]

In 1998, he was honored as a Distinguished Young Scholar by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (Chinese: 国家杰出青年科学基金). He returned to China next year to lead Program 973 research projects.^[4] He was elected as a fellow of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2013.^[5]

• Distinguished Young Scholar by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (Chinese: 国家杰出青年科学基金) - 1999^[6]
• Program 973 leading scientist (Chinese: 国家973项目首席科学家) - 1999^[6]
• National Natural Science Award (Chinese: 国家自然科学二等奖) - 2009^[3][5]
• Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Science and Technology Progress Award (Chinese: 何梁何利科学与技术进步奖) - 2011^[3]
• Fellow of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese: 中国科学院院士) - 2013^[5]