On the afternoon of September 10, Professor Knut W. Urban, Academician of the German National Academy of Sciences and internationally renowned expert on electron microscope, visited BJUT. On behalf of the university, Vice President Wu Bin met with Professor Urban along with heads of the International Office, Institute of Science and Technology Development, and Institute of Solid State Microstructure and Performance.

Vice President Wu Bin warmly welcomed Professor Urban and thanked him for supporting the state-level Innovation and Talent Recruitment Base of Advanced Microscopy and Scale-Span Materials (“Project 111 Base”). Vice President Wu briefly introduced the history and internationalization of BJUT with a focus on the overall plan and development goals concerning the “Double First-Class” Construction Plan. He hoped that  Professor Urban strengthen academic exchange and cooperation with BJUT researchers based on “Project 111 Base” and expand the achievements and influence of bilateral collaborations.

Professor Knut W. Urban expressed appreciation of the hospitality of BJUT. He reviewed his exchange and cooperation with BJUT researchers and praised BJUT’s research strength in electron microscope and the achievements BJUT has made. He considered it a great pleasure to draw on the platforms and resources provided by the “Project 111 Base” to deepen cooperation with BJUT in research, talent cultivation, platform development, etc, and expressed hope that the achievment of bilateral coopertion could influence more academic institutions around the world.

Professor Knut W. Urban, Academician of the German National Academy of Sciences and co-inventor of modern spherical aberration corrected electron microscope, was previously Director of the Institute of Microstructure Research at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Professor at RWTH Aachen University, and Chairman of the German Physical Society. In 2018, Professor Urban joined the Innovation and Talent Recruitment Base of Advanced Microscopy and Scale-Span Materials of BJUT as “foreign academic master” to instruct young scholars and postdocs on advanced electron microscopy. BJUT and Professor Urban share the intent of jointly supervising doctoral candidates.