Academician Zhou Qilin, an organic chemist, graduated from Department of Chemistry, Lanzhou University in 1982. In the same year, he entered Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he received his doctors degree in 1987. From 1988 to1996, he had undertaken the postdoctoral research in East China University of Science and Technology, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, University of Basel and Trinity University.

Academician Zhang Weiping is the member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor of Institute of Mathematics in Nankai University and Doctoral Supervisor. He was born in 1964 in Shanghai. Research Directions: He works on Atiyah－Singer's index theory of the global differential geometry. Experience: He graduated from Fudan University, Shanghai in 1985. After graduating from Université Paris-Sud (UPS) with doctor's degree in 1996, he worked in Nankai University as a teacher.