Attracting Top Faculty to NTU Singapore

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   It is the norm that the leading professors act as nuclei for the aggregation of other researchers and especially the brightest post-doctoral fellows and research students. We already have an excellent faculty and are strengthening this further by bringing top calibre people from around the World, in keeping with our strong international persona. We are rapidly building up leading research groups in many of our core strategic areas. Bringing such ‘big elephants’ is a rapid means of creating such nuclei of research excellence. Examples of some of these key recruitments are listed below:
   Professor Maria Michel-Beyerle, from the Technical University of Münich, now in the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences working on electron transfer mechanisms especially in protein and similar molecules;
   Professor Kang Jun-Koo, formerly the MSU Federal Credit Union Endowed Chair in Financial Institutions and Investments at Michigan State University in the Nanyang Business School;
   Professor Pär Nordlund from the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, who will be responsible for establishing a new structural  genomics laboratory around which we shall create a Graduate School in Life Sciences;
   Professor Staffan Kjelleberg from the University of New South Wales and Professor Yehuda Cohen from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, both World leaders in environmental life sciences, who will be developing a new laboratory in environmental bio-technology;
   Professor Bo Liedberg, Linköping University, Sweden, who has been at the forefront of the development of the BioCore approach and will be developing a new bio-sensors activity at NTU;
   Professor Nadia Thalmann, Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland , who founded the MIRALab  which works on the electronic representation of the human form and its movements;
   Professor Kerry Sieh, California Institute of Technology, USA, a leading earthquake geologist who has worked extensively in the Banda-Ach region of Indonesia;
   Professor Chris Newhall, ex US Geological Survey, USA, who studies volcanic processes, with a focus on pre-eruption processes that control whether, when, and how explosively a volcano will erupt and who has previously developed the Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI);
   Professor Paul Tapponnier, Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris France, is the most influential and accomplished neo-tectonicist of his generation responsible for major discoveries in Tibet;
   Professor Chiu Chi-yue, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA, research focuses on cultures as knowledge traditions and the social, cognitive, and motivational processes that mediate the construction and evolution of social consensus. He also studies the dynamic interactions of cultural identification and cultural knowledge traditions and their implications for cultural competence and intercultural relations.
   Professor Hong Ying-yi, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA, research interests include culture and cognition, self, identity, and intergroup relations;
   A/Professor Christos Panagopoulos, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, UK, focuses on condensed matter systems with spontaneous tendencies toward complex electronic pattern formation at a range of temperatures especially close to absolute zero;
   Professor Rudy Marcus, California Institute of Technology, USA, Nobel Chemistry Prize-winner for electron transfer.

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