The annual National Science and Technology Awards Conference was held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on January 11, 2010. AMSS scientist Prof. Chen Zhiming  was awarded with the 2nd prize of the National Natural Science Prize for his outstanding research achievements in “Adaptive and Multiscale Computational Methods for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations”.

Prof. Chen Zhiming graduated from Nanjing University with a Bachelor degree in 1986. He then studied at the Institute of Mathematics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and received his Master of Science Degree in July 1989. After that, he continued his study at University of Augsburg in Germany and got his Ph.D. on February 1992. Prof. Chen Zhiming has been working at AMSS since 1994. He is currently the Director of the Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing of AMSS.

For his research contributions, he has received many other prizes and honors including the K.C. Wong Science Research Prize, Chinese Academy of Sciences (1994); Hundred Talent Project, Chinese Academy of Sciences (1999); NSFC Outstanding Young Scientist Grant (2000); Feng Kang Scientific Computing Prize (2001) and Invited Speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians, Madrid, Spain (2006)

The National Natural Science Prize is China's most prestigious award in natural science. The award is to recognize achievements in various fields of natural science that bring significant advancement in scientific knowledge.