Prof. Mianheng Jiang is Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), responsible for overseeing hightech-related research at the academy. He concurrently holds the position of President of the Shanghai Branch of CAS.

　　At the central academy in Beijing and the Shanghai branch, Prof. Jiang is in charge of numerous research programs, including the fuel cell and hydrogen energy project, coal to liquid oil (CTL) conversion project, micro-satellite for data communication project, MEMS-based wireless networking project, CAS information system infrastructure project, and an environmental monitoring project for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games. Representing the academy, he holds several positions in national programs, including Deputy Chief of the National Manned Flight Space Project, Deputy Chief of the National Lunar Exploration Project, Director General of the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation facility. He also serves, as a member or director, on several steering committees of the National Mid-long Term Science and Technology Development Programs. In addition to fulfilling his management responsibilities, Prof. Jiang continues to do research in his main field of condensed matter physics.

　　Prior to being nominated as Vice President of CAS in 1999, Prof. Jiang was the Director of the Shanghai Institute of Metallurgy, which is one of some 100 research institutions affiliated with CAS. He joined the Institute in 1982 as a researcher in the amorphous silicon solar materials group. Prior to that, he worked for two years at the Shanghai Institute of Semiconductor Devices. Prof. Jiang went to the United States to pursue his Ph.D. in 1986. Upon completion of his studies in 1991, Prof. Jiang joined the Hewlett Packard Company in Palo Alto, California for his post-graduate practical training. After 7 years of study and work experience in the U.S., he rejoined the Shanghai Institute of Metallurgy in 1993.

　　Prof. Jiang received a university diploma degree in nuclear science from Fudan University, Shanghai in 1977; a master degree in semiconductor materials studies from the Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing in 1982; and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University, Philadelphia in 1991.