Gratitude to the Fudan University faculty.

As Fudan's president and a population geneticist, he traced the genetic history and migrations of East Asian peoples, and we are grateful for a scientist-leader who reads humanity's shared story in our DNA.

A condensed-matter physicist and academician who computes the electronic structure of materials, we thank him for methods that help predict new materials before they are ever made.

A physicist of cold-cathode electron emission and Fudan's president from 2014 to 2021, we thank him for advancing vacuum nanoelectronics and for stewarding the university with a scientist's care.

A physical chemist whose mesoporous polymers and carbons won the 2020 State Natural Science Award first prize, we thank him for opening a field now studied by thousands of labs worldwide, with the humble line that he mostly just likes 'making holes.'

A macromolecular scientist and academician who invented weavable fiber lithium-ion batteries, we are grateful for turning cloth into power and imagining electronics we can wear.

A polymer physicist and Chinese Academy of Sciences academician who led Fudan as president, we are grateful for his work on the physics of macromolecules and his later devotion to preserving China's ancient books.

A historian of Chinese thought and religion and the 2026 Tang Prize laureate in Sinology, we thank him for his sweeping History of Chinese Thought and for rethinking what 'China' has meant.

A natural language processing scholar who built the open-source FudanNLP and FastNLP toolkits and the MOSS language model, we are grateful for his generosity in sharing tools the whole community can build on.

A literary critic and scholar of Ba Jin and twentieth-century Chinese literature, we thank him for reading modern China through its writers with both warmth and rigor.

As dean of Fudan's Institute of International Studies and a scholar of China-US relations, we are grateful for his steady, candid work on keeping dialogue open between the two powers.

A philosopher of Marxist thought and of comparative Chinese and Western philosophy, we are grateful for his careful work on how ideas travel between traditions.

A professor of microelectronics and electronic design automation, we thank her for algorithms that make analog circuits faster to design and easier to manufacture.

A demographer of China's population and aging, we are grateful for decades of humane research on how a changing population reshapes families and society.

As dean of Fudan Law School and a scholar of Chinese legal history, we are grateful for his work connecting Qing-era procedure to the legal questions of today.

An epidemiologist and dean of Fudan's School of Public Health, we thank him for field research on infectious disease that protects communities at their most vulnerable.

An atmospheric scientist studying aerosols and haze, we thank him for research that helps cities understand and clear their air.

As dean of Fudan's School of Management and a professor of marketing, we are grateful for building a business school that studies China's markets on their own terms.

An electronic engineer and academician of electromagnetic scattering and remote sensing, we thank him for methods that let satellites see the Earth and its environment more clearly.

A mathematician of nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equations and a foreign member of the French Academy of Sciences, we thank him for a lifetime advancing applied analysis and Sino-French mathematical friendship.

As founding director of Fudan's China Center for Economic Studies and dean of economics, we are grateful for his clear-eyed scholarship on China's growth, reform, and productivity.

A hepatobiliary surgeon and academician at Zhongshan Hospital, we are grateful for the 'Shanghai Fudan Criteria' for liver-cancer transplantation and for tens of thousands of operations that gave patients more time.

A neuropharmacologist and academician who studies the brain circuits of addiction and memory, we thank her for research that helps us understand, and one day heal, dependence.

A structural biologist who uses cryo-electron microscopy to reveal how cells regulate DNA, we thank her for work honored as a top advance in China's life sciences.

A virologist and academician who pioneered therapeutic hepatitis B vaccines, we are grateful for a lifetime confronting a virus that affects millions and for teaching generations of Chinese microbiologists.