＂It＇s a Beautiful Chancc to Work in China＂--An Interview with Prof,Miguel Esteban

As a research professor at the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health (GIBH), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Miguel Esteban is the first non-Chinese scientist to chair a major scientific research program in China. Born and educated in Spain and the UK, he worked in Madrid and London as a scholar and physician before joining GIBH in January 2008. Just two years after his arrival, in 2010, Professor Esteban was named by the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology as the chief scientist of a five-year major research program on stem cell study with a grant up to 28 million yuan (about 4.4 million US dollars). The following is a brief interview between BCAS reporter XIN Ling and the Professor about his work and life in China.     

＂China is an Exciting Place to Work＂： An Interview with Prof. Richard Corlett

In the last 30 years, Prof. Richard Corlett has carried out investigations in South and East Asian tropics and was actively engaged in biodiversity conservation in these regions. From July, 2012, he will start to work as director of a new integrative conservation center and head of biodiversity conservation research     

China＇s Remote Sensing from a Global View--An Interview with CAS Member Prof. GUO Huadong

＂While implementing the high-resolution Earth observation program, China will further launch new resource satellites for environmental, meteorological, and oceanic observations; meanwhile it will also launch a number of geoscience satellites and small satellites for different purposes,＂ CAS Member Prof. GUO Huadong, Chair of the 35th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment （ISRSE35） and also head of the CAS Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth （RADI）, the host of the Symposium, shared with BCAS readership the latest progress and future roadmap of China＇s remote sensing in an interview with reporter SONG Jianlan. He also outlined China＇s contributions to international efforts to address global environmental change.     

＂I Want to See China and India Shine at the Top of Scientific Kingdom＂——An Interview with Prof, C, N, R, Rao

The 2012 Award for international Scientific Cooperation of CAS goes to three noted scientiists from India, Germany and Russia, namely C. N. R. Rao, Herbert Jckle and G. A. Zherebtsov. CAS President BAI Chunli met with two winners of the award who were present at the awarding ceremony held on January 23, 2013 in Beijing.     

＂Mechanics Is to Look at Interesting Phenomena and Inspire Imagination＂ --An Interview with Prof. Timothy J. Pedley

August 2012 is an unforgettable month for Prof. Timothy J. Pedley from Cambridge University: a few days after his nation had successfully hosted the Olympic Games in London, he and more than 1,500 mech...     

To Scale New Scientific Heights and Mt Qomolangma in China： An Interview with Prof. Raymond Stevens

Prof. Raymond C. Stevens is a world-leading scientist in the structural study of G protein-coupled receptors and related drug design. For more than two decades he has worked at Harvard, University of Califorivia, Berkeley and the Scripps Research Institute and partnered with     

＂Evervbody has a Role to Play in Curbing Carbon Emissions＂-- An Interview with Prof, Corinne Le Quere

＂The only thing I＇d like to say is that everybody has a role to play - every country and every people in the country. The role has to be fair, feasible and realistic, both in the context of the country itself and in the context of the enormous global challenge to tackle.＂-- Prof. Corinne Le Quere