Lisa Alvarez-Cohen meets Tongji University President

Tongji University (Shanghai) President Zhong Zhihua and Professor Lisa Alvarez-Cohen (UC Berkeley Fred and Claire Sauer Professor of Environmental Engineering, Assistant Director of the UC Berkeley SRP, and SRP Project 4 Leader) met in early January 2017 to discuss the Tongjo-Berkeley partnership for the joint training of environmental engineering doctoral students.

President Zhong briefly briefed Lisa on the basic situation of Tongji University, proposed the strategic concept of cooperation with the University of California, and hoped to strengthen cooperation with UC Berkeley as two comprehensive universities with their own engineering characteristics in their respective countries. Through the powerful combination of discipline construction, personnel training aspects of win­win situation. President Zhong also introduced the future development direction of Tongji University, including the construction of campus, international joint laboratory and international scientist construction plan, and wished the academician of Lisa to go to Beijing next week to participate in the 2017 Spring Symposium of Foreign Experts.

Academician Lisa introduced the history of her cooperation with Tongji University, highlighted the achievements in scientific research cooperation and personnel exchange, expressed her great interest in Tongji academic atmosphere, hoped to further strengthen the cooperation and looked forward to the recent Bell on the University of California at Berkeley Access.

It is reported that, Lisa Alvarez­Cohen Professor in 2010 was elected to the United States Academy of Engineering. In the UC Berkeley Department of Civil and Environmental Affairs in 2011 recommended Tongji University and Berkeley’s full cooperation, the establishment of the Tongji ­ Berkeley Union, to promote the Tongji University undergraduate “3 +1 +1” project, the joint Training of environmental engineering doctoral students and senior research scholar more than a joint research results published more than academic papers. Academician Lisa is a well­known expert in environmental biotechnology, and through cooperation with Tongji University, he has formed an international and unique scientist’s studio in the field of water pollution prevention and control. Through this platform, scientists from the world will cooperate with each other in China. Study the super club, in order to solve the problem of water pollution in China to provide an international perspective. In 2016, he was selected to be a short­term project of foreign experts.