Professor Gu Binglin was officially appointed as the 17th President of Tsinghua University in April 2003.

　　He was born in Heilongjiang Province of China in 1945. He studied in the Department of Engineering Physics of Tsinghua University from 1965 to 1970. After graduation, he worked as a teacher and pursued postgraduate studies at the same university until 1979. In that year, he was dispatched to Aarhus University of Denmark for further studies in physics, and got his Doctoral Degree of Natural Science there in 1982. He has been a senior visiting scholar at the University of Notre Dame of the United States, and a guest professor at Tohoku University of Japan.

　　Mr. Gu Binglin is a professor of physics. He had been the Chairman of the Department of Physics, the Dean of the Graduate School and Vice President of Tsinghua University before his presidency.

　　He was elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1999. He is now also a member of China's National Academic Degree Appraisal Committee, a member of the standing committee of Chinese Society of Physics, a board member of Chinese Society of Material Science, and the director of the Steering Committee for Education of Physics and Astronomy under the Ministry of Education of China.

　　Professor Gu Binglin has long been engaged in the research field of condensed matter physics and has published more than 200 papers. The major awards he has been granted include a Second-class Prize of China's National Natural Science Award; a First-class Prize of Natural Science Award for Chinese universities; the Advancement of Science and Technology Award sponsored by Hong Kong Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation; and many other awards granted by the Beijing Municipal Government, the Ministry of Education, the State Science and Technology Commission, and the Ministry of Personnel of China.