Y. F. Wang

Yifang WANG is currently a member of CAS and the Third World Academy of Sciences, a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of the US, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society, and the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was the director of IHEP from 2011 to 2024. Wang received his bachelor's degree from Nanjing University in 1984 and his Ph.D. from the University of Florence in 1991. Prior to join IHEP in 2001, he worked at INFN, Sezione di Firenze, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University. Wang 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 observed a new type of neutrino oscillation denoted by 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. He previously worked for L3, AMS, Palo Verde, and KamLAND experiments. Wang is an author of more than 900 scientific papers on neutrino physics, e+e- collision physics, detector design and construction, and methods for data analysis, received 13 patents, and a chief editor of two books, "Design and Construction of BESIII" and "Physics at BESIII". Wang 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 in Experimental Particle Physics, the Nikkei Asia Prize, the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, the Pontecorvo Prize, First prize of National Natural Science Prize，and the Future Science Prize. He holds two Honorary Doctoral 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.