TITLE MARCH 2012 - Pakistan Academy of Sciences

64 Citations of Elected Fellows
competition, he has won the S&T International
Talent Scholarship for PhD and the Post-doctoral
International Fellowship Award, UK (2002), both
awarded by the Ministry of Science and
Technology, Pakistan.
Dr. Jqbal was awarded Tamgha-i-Imtiaz in
2010 by the President of Pakistan. He is recipient
of PAS Gold Medal (2008) in Botany and the
1996 TWAS Young Scientist of the Year Award
in Biology of the Third World Academy of
Sciences, Italy. His research achievements have
also been recognized by the Government of
Pakistan through Research Productivity Awards
for eight (8) consecutive years, since 2001.
Recently, he has been placed in " A " category of
Scientists of Pakistan (2010-2011), based on
Impact Factor and Citations of his publications, by
the Ministry of Science and Technology of
Pakistan.
Citations of Newly Elected Foreign Fellows of PAS
The following two eminent scientists were elected Foreign Fellows of the Pakistan Academy of
Sciences during 2011:
Prof. Dr. Chunli Bai
Chunli Bai is Professor of Chemistry and
President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
(CAS) and President of the Graduate University of
CAS with more than 34,000 graduate students.
Prof. Chunli Bai graduated from Department
of Chemistry, Peking University in 1978 and
received his MS and PhD degrees from CAS
Institute of Chemistry in 1981 and 1985,
respectively. During 1985-1987, he was Research
Associate at Caltech, USA for advanced studies,
conducting research in the field of physical
chemistry. Thereafter he continued his research at
CAS Institute of Chemistry. From 1991 to 1992,
he was a visiting professor at Tohoku University
in Japan.
Research areas of Prof. Bai involve the
structure and properties of polymer catalysts, X-
ray crystallography of organic compounds,
molecular mechanics and EXAFS research on
electro-conducting polymers. In mid-1980s, he
shifted his research orientation to the field of
scanning tunneling microscopy, molecular
nanostructures, self-assembly, novel nanomaterials,
molecular nano devices, and single
molecule detection.
Prof. Bai is one of the pioneers in the field of
scanning probe microscopy and nanotechnology in
China. In mid-1980s while the scanning probe
microscope was not yet commercially available,
he successfully designed and developed China's
first atomic force microscope (AFM), scanning
tunneling microscope (STM), low-temperature
STM, UHV-STM, and ballistic electron emission
microscopy (BEEM). Due to his creative
contributions to the solutions of a series of
technical problems, he has earned a number of
patents of original innovations and applications.
These achievements were the landmarks of SPM
research in China, leading to the earliest
technological tools in the country for manipulating
single atoms and molecules and characterizing
surface and interface in the nano-scale world.
Prof. Bai has been instrumental in furthering
China's nanoscience and nanotechnology research
both as a scientist and a policy-maker. As Chief
Scientist of National Steering Committee for
Nanoscience and Related Technology, he initiated
and coordinated a number of national key projects
about Nano S&T. He is the founding Director and
Council Chairman of the National Center for
Nanoscience and Technology, China.
Prof. Bai has more than 350 scientific
publications in refereed journals and has authored
12 monographs and several book chapters in the
field. He has won more than 20 prestigious awards
and prizes for his academic achievements. He was
elected a member of CAS and a Fellow of the
Academy of Sciences for the Developing World
(TWAS) in 1997. He is also Foreign Associate of
the US National Academy of Sciences, Foreign
Member of Russian Academy of Sciences,
Member of the German National Academy of
Science and Engineering (acatech.de) and
Honorary Fellow of the Indian Academy of