Prof. Yifang Wang

Research Area： Particle Physics 

Director, Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS

Address: 19B，Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing, 100049，China

Email: yfwang@ihep.ac.cn

WANG Yifang was born in 1963 at Jiangsu Province, obtained his B.Sc degree at Nanjing University in 1984, and Ph.D degree at University of Florence in 1991. He worked subsequently in MIT as a research staff and Stanford University as a research associate. He returned to China to work at the Institute of High Energy Physics in 2001, became the assistant director in 2003, deputy director in 2005 and director in 2011. 

WANG Yifang successfully led the design and construction of the BESIII detector at the Beijing Electron Positron Collider（BEPC）, and the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment, which precisely measured the neutrino mixing angle theta13. He is now leading the JUNO experiment to measure the neutrino mass hierarchy using reactor neutrinos. He proposed the idea of the Circular  Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) as a possible future step for particle physics. Before that, he worked for L3, AMS, Palo Verde and KamLAND experiments. 

He is an author of more than 300 scientific papers on neutrino physics, e+e-collision physics, detector design and construction, methods for data analysis, received two patents, and a chief editor of two books,“Design and Construction of BESⅢ”,“Physics at BESIII”

For his outstanding contribution to particle physics, he was awarded the Zhou Guangzhao Fundamental physics prize, the Ho Leung Ho Lee (HLHL) Foundation Scientific and Technological Progress Award, the W.K.H. Panofsky Prize for experimental particle physics, the Nikkei Asia Prize, the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, the Pontecorvo Prize and the Future Science Prize. He received two Honorary Doctor Degrees from the Suranaree University of Technology in Thailand and the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany . He was also awarded the medal of the Commander of the Republic of Italy.