Prof. David Waxman seeks pure scientific delight in Shanghai

Early each morning, a foreigner, like many Chinese people, can be seen cycling or walking on his way to work. He is casually dressed and perhaps you will not guess that this seemingly ordinary person is a theoretical biologist, who is probably puzzling over a research problem as he travels.

Speaking of his experience of meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping, after receiving the 2013 Friendship Award, he just smiled modestly as a typical Englishman.

He is David Waxman. March 21, 2009 was the precise date of his first arrival in China. That day, he set foot in Shanghai for a visit to Fudan University. Since then, he has visited China many times as a guest professor. In July 2011, he resigned his job at the University of Sussex and came to Fudan University with his wife Marie Harder, beginning a full-time academic position at Fudan. Ever since, David has devoted himself to doing research and making a contribution to China’s scientific research cause.

(David Waxman, Professor of Biology, poses for a photo at the Centre for Computational Systems Biology, Fudan University.[Photo/David Waxman])