On Wednesday afternoon, Premier Li Keqiang held a symposium in Beijing with representatives of foreign experts working in China before the Chinese Lunar New Year. Nicholas Houston, a British expert from BJUT, was invited.

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Nicholas Houston is a theoretical physicist on astroparticle physics, dark matter phenomenology, and inflationary cosmology. He has a bachelor’s degree in Physics from the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow), an MSc in Theoretical Physics from Imperial College London, an MSc in Mathematics from Cambridge University and a PhD in Theoretical Physics from King's College London. After obtaining his PhD, he came to China and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for High Energy Physics, Peking University and the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he was awarded the CAS President's International Fellowship in 2016. In 2019, he joined BJUT, undertaking the teaching of Linear Algebra at Beijing-Dublin International College and the research work at the Faculty of Science in astrophysics and inflationary cosmology, with a particular focus on dark matter. He has carried out extensive and pioneering research in axion dark matter, with several highly-cited papers published in top international journals such as Physical Review Letters. In 2021, his research project was approved by the National Natural Science Foundation of China for Young International Scholars, the first of its kind for BJUT that marks a major stride in the international development of the University. He is also the first foreign expert from BJUT that was invited to Premier’s Spring Festival Symposium, which represents a recognition of BJUT’s achievement in global development and in the creation of a high-quality international talent pool.

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