Office1: | President of Zhejiang University | ||||||||||||||||||
Term Start1: | 28 December 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||
Predecessor1: | Wu Zhaohui | ||||||||||||||||||
Du Jiangfeng | |||||||||||||||||||
Native Name: | 杜江峰 | ||||||||||||||||||
Native Name Lang: | zh | ||||||||||||||||||
Birth Place: | Wuxi, Jiangsu, China | ||||||||||||||||||
Party: | Chinese Communist Party | ||||||||||||||||||
Alma Mater: | University of Science and Technology of China | ||||||||||||||||||
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Du Jiangfeng (; born June 1969) is a Chinese physicist, university administrator and politician, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, currently serving as president of Zhejiang University.
He is a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He is an alternate member of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.[1]
Du was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu, in June 1969.[2] He attended .[3] He earned a bachelor's degree in 1990, a master's degree in 1997, and a doctor's degree in 2000, all from the University of Science and Technology of China.[2]
After graduating in 1990, he stayed and taught at his alma mater.[2] From 2005 to 2007, he was a researcher of Dortmund University in Germany.[2] He was appointed as a "Changjiang Scholar" (or " Yangtze River Scholar") by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China in 2008.[2] He moved up the ranks to become deputy dean of its School of Physics in 2012 and vice president in April 2018.[2]
On 28 December 2022, the Organization Department of the Chinese Communist Party appointed Du as president of Zhejiang University, a position at vice-ministerial level.[4]