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26.03.2025
Prof. Andrea Santangelo appointed Fudan Scholar for 2025.
Shanghai, March 25 2025 Professor Andrea Santangelo has been awarded the prestigious title of Fudan Scholar for 2025
Shanghai, March 25 2025
Professor Andrea Santangelo, head of the high-energy astrophysics section at the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the University of Tübingen, has been awarded the prestigious title of Fudan Scholar for 2025
Fudan University, located in Shanghai, is one of the most prestigious universities in China. Founded as Fudan College in 1905, it became a private university in 1917 and later a National University in 1941.
Throughout 2025, Andrea Santangelo will spend approximately three months at the Fudan University’s Department of Physics, not only to develop joint research and teaching projects but also to work on strengthening scientific and institutional relations between Fudan University and the University of Tübingen. These relations were strengthened by a Memorandum of Understanding between the two Universities signed in April 2024.
Professor Andrea Santangelo and Professor Kostas Kokkotas, head of the theoretical astrophysics section in Tuebingen, already have a strong scientific collaboration with their colleagues in astrophysics at Fudan, focusing on topics related to general relativity, black hole astrophysics, and compact objects in general. One of the goals of Andrea Santangelo's visit to Fudan will be to expand this collaboration to other areas of research in physics.
"In times when the coordinates and dynamics of the world seem to change rapidly and unexpectedly, strengthening scientific collaboration on fundamental research into the mysteries of nature, as well as fostering the exchange of young (and not-so-young) minds and passions, is the best way to build bridges rather than walls, and to broaden our scientific, cultural, and human horizons" commented Andrea Santangelo.