The Award for International Scientific Cooperation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is the highest award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), People’s Republic of China. This award is to commend and honor those eminent foreign experts who have made outstanding contributions to facilitate cooperation with CAS.

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The award is given to encourage more efforts that will strengthen CAS’s innovation capacity and lead to improvements in its research performance, education & training, management, and reputation in the international scientific community.

Prof. Besenbacher is a pioneer in the development of scanning probe microscopy and in applying it to the fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology. His relationship with China can be traced back to the early 1990s, when he first visited China to foster a cooperative link between Denmark and China actively promoting academic cooperation and exchanges in science and technology. Since 1990 he has collaborated with the Institute of Chemistry, CAS and the scanning tunneling microscopy laboratory lead by Prof Chun Li Bai, carrying out academic exchange, student transfer and publishing joint papers.

In 2009 the Sino-Danish Self-assembly and Nanostructure Functional Materials Center was established and as director of the Center, Professor Besenbacher has promoted the center into a world- leading center performing high-level research in the field of self-assembly.

Prof. Besenbacher has been involved in the advocacy and promotion of the Sino-Danish Center for Education and Research (SDC), in particular, the direction of the nanoscience education program, actively discussing the promotion of the interdisciplinary curriculum. SDC has subsequently helped with the exchange of science and technology personnel and cooperation on jointly sponsored projects between the two countries.  Prof. Besenbacher has played a major role in promoting high level interactions for strategic development of science and technology between Denmark and China.

On January 1, 2012, Prof. Besenbacher took over as chairman of the Carlsberg Foundation which supports scientific research within the fields of natural sciences, mathematics, philosophy, the humanities and social sciences. He has been a member of the foundation's management since 2005.

• JPAarhus about the award

More information:

• Prof. Flemming Besenbacher; mobil: 2338 2204
• Scientific coordinator Kaj Mikael Jensen; mobil 2338 2024