Recently, Jian LIN, Chair Professor of the Department of Ocean Science and Engineering (OSE) at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), was elected as a member of the Academia Europaea (Academy of Europe).

Marja Makarow, President of Academia Europaea, congratulated Prof. LIN on his selection as a member of the academy in 2022.

Previously, Prof. LIN served as a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Henry Bigelow Chair for Excellence in Oceanography, a faculty member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)/WHOI joint program in oceanography, and a distinguished research fellow and deputy director of the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

He has made fundamental contributions to global ocean sciences and earthquake research, and has been elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and Fellow of the Geological Society of America (GSA). He also served as chair of the InterRidge Science Program.

His research was selected as one of the Top Ten Advancements in Ocean Science and Technology in China in 2019, won the first prize of the Guangdong Natural Science Award in 2020, and received the grand prize of the 2021 Ocean Science and Technology Award. He has also published a series of papers in top international journals such as Nature and Science, with one of his earthquake research papers ranked by the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) as the most-cited paper in a decade.

Prof. LIN has led a series of groundbreaking studies in the field of global oceanic plate tectonics and dynamics, and his pioneering research and discoveries have laid a foundation for understanding the three-dimensional structure of the Earth’s crust and mantle beneath the global mid-ocean ridges.

He served as the chief scientist of the IODP drilling expeditions in the South China Sea and more than twenty international oceanographic expeditions to the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic oceans, and led the first China-Pakistan joint Indian Ocean expedition.

The Academia Europaea is an international scientific organization established in 1988 by scholars of many European countries and is a functioning European Academy of Humanities, Letters and Sciences, composed of individual members. Its headquarters are based in London, UK.

Members of the Academy are mainly from the fields of humanities, law, economic, social, and political sciences, mathematics, medicine, and all branches of natural and technological sciences. The Academy aims to promote European research, advise governments and international organizations in scientific matters, and further promote interdisciplinary and international research.

At present, there are more than 4,500 members. Among them include 74 Nobel Laureates.