Qian Hong, a biophysicist, after decades of work in the United States, resigned from his position as the Olga Jung Wan Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Washington, and joined West Lake University full-time in October 2025, drawing attention from the Chinese scientific community. He graduated from Peking University with a degree in astrophysics, obtained a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Washington University in St. Louis, and subsequently conducted research on the thermodynamics and kinetics of protein folding at the University of Oregon and the California Institute of Technology. In 1997, he joined the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Washington in Seattle, and later also served as a faculty member in the Department of Bioengineering at the School of Medicine. In 2010, he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society. His grandfather, Qian Baojun, was the founder of China's synthetic fiber industry and polymer science, making his return to China seen as a symbolic event in China's trend of "attracting top scientists."
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