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PIFI Builds Bridges Between Distant Researchers Connected by the Same Passion for Science: My Experience in Guangzhou
It all began in June 2021 with an invitation to contribute to a session entitled "Spotlight on oxidation state and other redox proxies from Earth's surface to core" for the European Mineralogical Conference, which was to be held in Krako...
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My PIFI Experience in 2024
I had a highly successful two months visiting the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry (GIG) on the Chinese Academy of Sciences President’s International Fellowship Initiative (CAS PIFI) in 2024. I visited twice, each for a month, in ...
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My CAS PIFI Experience in Guangzhou
Although I have been to China several times for academic visits over the last 30 years, this was my first time to come to Guangzhou. Supported by the FIFI program, in November 2023, I visited the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry (GIG)...
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PIFI Program – One Swallow That Made a Spring
I have been dedicated to terrestrial and extraterrestrial rocks for 40 years, first in the Soviet Union, where I was born and grew up, then in Canada in the early 1990s, and most recently at the Australian National University (ANU). Canb...
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My PIFI Experience in Guangzhou
First and foremost, I would like to thank the Chinese Academy of Sciences President's International Fellowship Initiative (CAS PIFI) for the opportunity to continue my research at the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy ...
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Work and Life in China
It is of my great honor to be a member of the big family of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). I was thrilled and excited when I was informed that my application for a CAS PIFI assistant professorship had been accepted. Not only is C...
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A Fulfilling and Exciting Experience
What is your feeling from having obtained the CAS-PIFI?I feel quite more equipped and prepared to take up my responsibilities back home in Nigeria in the university where I am currently a lecturer. The CAS-PIFI postdoctoral experience ha...
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A British Environmental Organic Chemist’s Decades-long Collaboration with China
Kevin C. Jones, Distinguished Professor at Lancaster University (LU) in the UK, received the Guangdong Science and Technology Cooperation Award earlier this year for his outstanding contributions to scientific collaboration between the U...