Congratulations to Professor Bao Weizhu for being one of the award recipients for the Chair Professorships for 2023.
The Provost’s Chair is awarded to faculty members who have achieved international recognition in the field at the rank of Professor. The appointment term is effective from 1 July 2023 for a period of three years.
Prof Bao has made significant contributions in modelling and simulating Bose-Einstein condensation, and multiscale methods and analysis for partial differential equations. He was an invited sectional speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (2014), which is considered high recognition for a mathematician. In 2022, he was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, Singapore National Academy of Science, and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.