Cardiff School of Engineering’s Professor Roger Falconer (now Emeritus Professor of Water Engineering since October 2018) and Founding Director of the Hydro-environmental Research Centre (1997-2015), has been elected a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), in the biennial election in November 2019 of all CAE Members. Roger was informed by the President of CAE of his election to the Academy, in recognition of his ‘distinguished contributions to hydraulic engineering and to the promotion of China-UK exchanges and cooperation in the field’. Membership of the CAE is the highest academic title in engineering science and technology in China and is a lifelong honour, with election being made by the existing members of the CAE. Foreign members are non-Chinese citizens who are distinguished and recognised for their achievement in engineering.     

 Roger first started collaborating with China through Tongji University in 1981; since that date he has continuously collaborated with several top (Chinese) universities and government institutes, with the following being some examples of notable collaborations: (i) Tongji University: design formulations for harbours and marinas to maximise water quality; (ii) Tsinghua University: development of a software tool CONTANT for the design of water supply disinfection tanks; (iv) Tianjin University and Municipal Government: modelling Bohai Bay and Sea as a system, with the objective of balancing economic development of the Bay for increased shipping, against minimising the impact on the coastal environment; (v) Wuhan University: development of new formulations for the stability of people and vehicles in floods; etc. Roger has also published extensively with Chinese co-authors (e.g. in 116 of 206 journal papers to-date) and has been appointed Honorary Professor at several Chinese universities,  such as: Tongji, Tianjin, Sichuan and China’s Institute of Water and Hydropower Research.

The President of EURASC, Professor Rodrigo Martins has been asked to be the “Kuemmerer”/”Guardian Angels” for thematic sessions of  Sustainable Materials and Green deal and of the session concerning Young Scientists, during the  IndTech 2020 to be organized  during the Germany presidency of the European Union, in Mainz, 26-28 October 2020. 

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"Creativity Towards Future Science Challenges"

The President of EURASC, Professor Rodrigo Martins integrates the world scientist group asked for thinking what Materials we will need for the future. The group that includes 20 top world scientists define a new paradigm for science, called STEM Materials, whose concept is to design and create a material able to integrate functions, such as an organ. This concept was accepted by the director of DG Research on Prosperity of the European Commission, Peter Droeel, to be introduced as a key issue within the Horizon Europe programme, targeting the objectives of the Green Deal proposed by the presidency of the European Commission.

For further details, see the publication  "STEM Materials: a new frontier for an intelligent sustainable world",  BMC Materials journal ,Nature Springer .