Thanks to the China’s talent attraction policies which in particular welcomes the inflow of foreigners, more and more highly sophisticated talents like David have been attracted to China, forming a think tank and a strong force for China’s modernization. Many of them are top-level experts in engineering materials, life science, information science and other important scientific fields. Some work in the developed eastern part of China, while others devote themselves in the Midwest. Coming to China due to the opening-up policy, they bring their wisdom into full play, promote economic and technological exchanges between China and the world, and furthermore, help China go towards the center of the world. As one of those foreign talents in Shanghai, David is enjoying his life here.“I recently renewed my contract with Fudan. And my wife is very happy to continue working here,” he said.

Delighted with Shanghai’s progress in scientific research

While in Shanghai, David has worked mostly on population biology. He uses methods from mathematics, probability and statistics along with results from subject, such as physics or financial mathematics, to make progress in biology. Leading a research team of his own, David is now working on interdisciplinary collaborations with various institutes. Along with his collaborators, he has published a number of research papers in this area. Amongst these, he has produced results on the simulation of the random behavior of a population and a flexible method of evolutionary control. David believes these to be useful contributions to population genetics and other research fields.