We interviewed Dr. Guojie Zhang at the occasion of EURAXESS Share event "Advance Your Research through Mobility" during which the EU-funded researcher introduced the Marie Skłodowska-Curie scheme to Shanghai-based audience. Dr. Guojie Zhang has just been appointed as tenure track Assistant Professor at the Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen (Centre of Social Evolution), which hosted his Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship...

Dr. Odette Paramor is a marine biologist with expertise in measuring and managing the impact of human activities on aquatic systems using ecological and functional approaches. Her scientific training was in benthic ecology, but she has broader interests in environmental management, particularly ecosystem approaches to management. Odette joined UNNC in September 2010 after a research career at the Universities of Liverpool, Newcastle upon Tyne...

Bai Yuhong was born in Changchun, China. She received a BSc degree in electronic engineering from Jilin University, a MSc degree in optical engineering from Chinese Academy of Sciences and a PhD in management science and engineering from Dalian University of Technology. She joined the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics (CIOMP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), as an assistant professor in 1986, and was appointed full...

Yu Yang has a PhD in Urban Engineering and is currently a lecturer of landscape architecture at Wuhan University, China. He has been working on landscape design, developing his idea of application of the “floating treatment wetlands”, as a possible answer to three challenges – urban pollution, lack of public space, and destroyed water banks in urban areas. Yu Yang is the winner of the 1st edition of the EURAXESS Science Slam China (2013). Dear...

Professor LIU Li is based at the Institute of Science, Technology and Society (STS) of the School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University. After his BSc in Chemistry and a Master in Philosophy at East China Normal University, he eventually gained his PhD in Philosophy of Science at Peking University. He has been based at Tsinghua since 2003. Prof Liu has been a visiting researcher at Fraunhofer Institute of Systems and Innovation Research, TU...

Dr Philippe Vialatte was trained as a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine specialised in tropical medicine. After some years in private practice, he started working on development issues in Mali. Subsequently, he earned an MBA and then joined the European Commission. He worked in Central African Republic, Burundi and Kenya in the Delegations of (at that time) the European Commission. He is now saying goodbye to China after four years as Head of the...

Jules A. Hoffmann was born in Echternach, Luxembourg in 1941. He studied at the University of Strasbourg in France, where he obtained his PhD in 1969. After postdoctoral training at the University of Marburg, Germany, he returned to Strasbourg, where he headed a research laboratory from 1974 to 2009. He has also served as director of the Institute for Molecular Cell Biology in Strasbourg and during 2007-2008 as President of the French National...

Prof. Jean-Pierre Bourguignon is a French mathematician and the current President of the European Research Council (ERC). Previously, he worked at CNRS during his entire career, and taught at the École polytechnique near Paris for 26 years. From 1994 till 2013, he served as the Director of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS), a French institute supporting advanced research in mathematics and theoretical physics with a recent...

Dr. Hu Xiaobing is a Marie Curie fellow at the School of Engineering, University of Warwick. He is going back to the UK now after two years of secondment at the State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University (ESPRE-BNU). The State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology (Beijing Normal University) is an applied geology and ecology research laboratory. ESPRE scientists and...

Dr Heike Strelen was trained as an agricultural scientist at the University of Leipzig, specialising in animal production. She joined the German Research Foundation (DFG) in 1988 as the programme director for agricultural sciences. However, her interests have always ranged beyond this field. For instance, she coordinated a research group on nutrition and focused also on food safety. She was the head of the Division of Life Sciences at the DFG...