The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS)'s 23rd General Meeting and 12th General Conference was held in Tianjin, China, 18-21 September 2012. The membership election took place on 18 September. Professor Ya-Qiu JIN from the School of Information Science and Technology, Fudan University, was elected as fellow.

TWAS, the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, is an autonomous international organization, founded in 1983 in Trieste, Italy, by a distinguished group of scientists from the South under the leadership of the late Nobel laureate Abdus Salam of Pakistan. It was officially launched by the secretary-general of the United Nations in 1985.

TWAS represents the best of science in developing countries. Its main mission is to promote scientific excellence and capacity in the South for science-based sustainable development.

TWAS has forty-nine new members (45 Fellows and four Associate Fellows) in 2012, including five women. The current membership now stands at 1,077.

Details at http://twas.ictp.it.

Brief Introduction of Professor Ya-Qiu JIN

Ya-Qiu JIN, PhD., Professor, Key Laboratory of Wae Scattering and Remote Sensing Information, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Jin is known for his significant research achievements in electromagnetic scattering and radiative transfer in natural media, modelling and retrieval information for space-borne microwave remote sensing, and computational electromagnetics in complex systems. Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and Fellow of IEEE, he has received the Natural Science Prize of MoE four times, and the China State Natural Science Prize 2011.