Director of NAOC, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee

LIU Jifeng, member of the Communist Party of China, is Doctor of Science and Doctoral Supervisor. He leads the research group of the Galactic Three-dimensional Structures at NAOC, and is deputy Chair for the School of Astronomy and Space Sciences at UCAS. His contributions to  multi-wavelength studies of stars and compact object have been recognized with numerous awards, including the Einstein Scholar Award presentation by NASA, the National Distinguished Young Researcher Award, National Excellent Science and Technology Worker Award, Delta Lectureship Award, Beijing Science and Technology Award First Prize, the first Tencent’s “Science Exploration Award”, and the first "New Cornerstone" researcher project. His achievements have been selected as one of the "Top 10 Science and Technology Progress News in China" twice.