Rate My Professor Nianzhi Jiao

Nianzhi Jiao is a Cheung Kong Scholar Chair Professor at Xiamen University and an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He earned his PhD from the Ocean University of China in 1991. His postdoctoral positions include the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 1991 to 1992 and the University of Tokyo in 1993. He served as a research scientist at the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 1994 to 2000. Jiao joined Xiamen University in 2001 as Cheung Kong Scholar Chair Professor and has held an adjunct professorship at the University of Maryland since 2007. He was elected Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011, Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2014, and Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology in 2018. Jiao received the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 1996 and has served as visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and research scientist at the National Environmental Research Institute of Japan.