Shen will continue decades of research on partial differential equations and harmonic analysis at Westlake University in Hangzhou
Pioneering Chinese-American mathematician Zhongwei Shen has left the United States to take up a chair professorship at Westlake University in Hangzhou.
He joined Westlake’s School of Science in July to continue decades of research on partial differential equations and harmonic analysis – mathematical fields that form the backbone of modelling the natural world, according to the university website.
A founding member of the inaugural class of American Mathematical Society Fellows, Shen has also maintained close ties with China, including being named a Changjiang Scholar at Lanzhou University in 2015.
In an official announcement, Shen said he had long considered returning to China and closely followed developments back home. “I never considered going to another country,” he said. “If I were to leave, it’d have to be China, because that’s home.”
