Jingjing Shi Yuanpei Yang
Postdoc Office at Peking University has announced the awardees of the 4th round PKU Boya Fellowship and the 2017 PKU Outstanding Postdoc Award. Jingjing Shi, who will be a KIAA-ICRAR Fellow since this December, is awarded the PKU Boya Fellowship, and Yuanpei Yang, who is currently a KIAA-CAS Fellow and has won award from the Innovative Postdoc Support Program sponsored by the national China Postdoc Committee before, is awarded the 2017 PKU Outstanding Postdoc.
Dongyao Zhao
The China Postdoctoral Science Fund awardees have also been announced. Dongyao Zhao won the 62nd General Fund, as one of the 6 postdocs in PKU astronomy who won grant funding from either the General or Special Fund from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation in 2017.
John Graham Chandrachur Chakraborty
Two international postdocs at KIAA, John Graham and Chandrachur Chakraborty, won Research Fund for International Young Scientists sponsored by National Natural Science Foundation of China.
Postdocs in PKU astronomy have received more awards and funds from PKU and the national government, and have maintained a high rate of postdocs with successful proposals of any department at PKU, which makes KIAA postdoc program one of the flagships of PKU astronomy.
Announcements:
The 4th Round PKU Boya Fellowship: http://postdocs.pku.edu.cn/tzgg/54737.htm
2017 PKU Outstanding Postdoc Award: http://postdocs.pku.edu.cn/tzgg/54729.htm
China Postdoctoral Science General Fund: http://postdocs.pku.edu.cn/kxyj/jjyxmsq/54739.htm
2017 Research Fund for International Young Scientists: http://www.nsfc.gov.cn/publish/portal2/tab186/info71774.htm