Educated at the University of Southern California and Princeton University. 1985-2001, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, and affiliated with the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory. 2001-06, Vice-President, Research and Associate Provost and Robert T. Haslam Chair in Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2006-14, President, Lehigh University. Since 2014, President, Imperial College London. Member: Board of Directors, Chevron Corporation; Board of Trustees, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST); Academic Research Council, Singapore Ministry of Education; Board Member, UK Research & Innovation. United States Science Envoy to the Caucasus and Central Asia. Co-Author of numerous scientific publications and a classic textbook on colloid and surface phenomena. Academic interest: surface and interfacial phenomena, in particular the behaviour of complex fluids.
Seven years have passed since world leaders met in New York and agreed 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to resolve major challenges including poverty, hunger, inequality, climate c...
大学通过加速即将发生的变化来应对疫情危机。现在，展望未来，我们必须充分利用这些变化，开拓新的领域。当世界大部分地区进入封锁状态，大学加强了研究并将教学转移到了网络空间。这场危机激发了各种发明，并带来了新的教学和学习方式、创新的新思想和技术的进步。随着我们对校园学习进行现代化改造，许多变化将继续伴随着我们。
Universities dealt with the pandemic crisis by accelerating changes that were on the horizon. Now as we look forward, we must keep the best of these changes and forge ahead with new front...
Siete décadas después de la publicación del libro 1984, George Orwell parece profético y clarividente. Tal vez solo entendía la naturaleza humana. Parece ser que hemos llegado a un mundo ...
Seven decades after the book 1984 was published, George Orwell seems prescient and clairvoyant. Perhaps he just understood human nature. We have arrived, it seems, in a world that is so d...
Today, it seems that you cannot walk down any street without dodging people who are watching the screens on their phones rather than looking where they are going. This continues in wifi-e...
在过去的几年中，人们对于大学、专家的信任程度不断下降。“大学”、“专家”等名字似乎也不如以往那样得到尊重。
Over the past several years, we have witnessed a growing decline in the trust people place in institutions and experts. Universities and scientists, among others, no longer command the re...
During the holidays I read The Undoing Project, the compelling new book by Michael Lewis. He describes the incredible relationship and amazing journey taken by Israeli psychologists Amos ...
Much will be said this International Women’s Day about the number of women in leadership positions, the percentage of women on boards and the trends in this data. Clearly there are very c...
As the boundaries blur between the cyber and physical worlds, we have the potential for greater economic growth, new innovations and a better way of life.
