"Together with the Scientists" - Nobel Laureates Visit HKUST

Andre Geim is a physicist, director of Manchester Centre for Mesoscience and Nanotechnology, director of Shenzhen Geim Graphene Center, Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute, foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, fellow of the Royal Society, and foreign academician of the National Academy of Sciences, United States. His research topics range from nanomaterials to buoyancy quantum states. In 2010, Andre Geim was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for the groundbreaking contributions to the study of two-dimensional graphene materials (shared with Konstantin Novoselov).

Brian Schmidt AC FAA FRS FTSE is Distinguished Professor of Astronomy at the Australian National University. For his work on the accelerating universe, Brian Schmidt as leader of the High-Z SN Search team was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Adam Riess and Saul Perlmutter. Schmidt has worked across many areas of Astronomy including studying supernovae, gamma ray bursts, gravitational wave transients, exo-planets, and metal poor stars. Brian completed joint undergraduate degrees in astronomy and physics at the University of Arizona (1989), an astronomy master’s degree (1992) and PhD (1993) from Harvard University. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Brian Schmidt joined the staff of the Australian National University in 1995. In 2000 Schmidt was awarded the Australian Government’s inaugural Malcolm McIntosh award for achievement in the Physical Sciences, in 2006 he was jointly awarded the Shaw Prize for Astronomy, and shared the 2007 Gruber Prize for Cosmology and 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Physics with his High-Z SN Search Team colleagues. He served as the 12th Vice Chancellor and President of the Australia National University from 2016-2023.

South African-born American-British-Israeli biophysicist, currently a professor at Stanford University. He is renowned for developing multiscale models for complex chemical systems and was jointly awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Martin Karplus and Arieh Warshel. Levitt's research provided critical tools for molecular dynamics simulations and studies of protein folding, significantly advancing computational chemistry and biophysics. His work has offered robust theoretical and methodological support for drug design, materials science, and biomedical research, particularly in the realm of computer simulations.