“This is a very special prize – the highest award that a foreigner can receive from the Chinese Academy of Sciences,” says Prof. Dr. Ulf-G. Meißner. “So it's a very special honor!” The researcher is being honored for his outstanding contributions to scientific cooperation with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, including in the Collaborative Research Center Transregio TRR110 “Symmetries and Structure Formation in Quantum Chromodynamics.”
In this joint project, researchers investigated how strongly interacting particles (hadrons and atomic nuclei) arise from the fundamental building blocks of matter—quarks and gluons—and what their properties are. In addition to the University of Bonn, participants included Peking University, the Technical University of Munich, the Institute of High Energy Physics and the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, and the Forschungszentrum Jülich.
Meißner, who is also a member of the transdisciplinary research areas “Modeling” and “Matter” at the University of Bonn, wants to continue advancing research in the fields of nuclear, hadron, and particle physics together with the Chinese Academy of Sciences. To this end, the collaboration receives funding from the CAS over the next few years as part of the joint project “Strongly interacting matter.”