Source: SYSU News Center
Written by: SYSU News Center
Edited by: Wang Dongmei

On the morning of January 27, 2015, at a meeting held in Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), Prof. Luo Jun was appointed as President of SYSU. Mr. Yu Yunlin, Director of the Third Cadre Bureau of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, announced the decision of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council. Mr. Du Yubo, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Leading Group and Vice Minister of the Ministry of Education, and Ms. Li Yumei, Member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee and Director of the Organization Department of the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee, attended and addressed the meeting, which was chaired by Prof. Zheng Detao, Secretary of SYSU Party Committee.

Prof. Luo Jun, a native of Xiantao, Hubei Province, was born in November, 1956. He was elected Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009.

Prof. Luo Jun received his B.S. degree in the Department of Physical Chemistry in Huazhong Institute of Technology (HIT) in 1982 and then joined the HIT faculty. In 1985, he completed his M.S. study in HIT and received his M.S. degree in SYSU. He became a professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1994. He obtained his Ph.D. from Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1999.

Prof. Luo Jun’s research fields are precision measurement physics and gravitational experiments. His professional accomplishments include: Experimental determination of Newtonian gravitational constant G and the values were collected by CODATA since 1998; new upper limit on the photon mass was collected by Particle Data Group (2004); first develop and determine the WEP for extended rotating bodies; tests of Newtonian inverse square law in short ranges; and more than 150 refereed journal publications since 1985.

Prof. Luo Jun became Vice-President of Huazhong University of Science & Technology (HUST) in July 2010, and Executive Vice-President of HUST in July 2013. He was appointed as President of Sun Yat-sen University in January 2015.