Wei Juncheng 魏軍城

  • Senior Research Fellowship in 2005 at Chinese University of Hong Kong

Professor WEI Juncheng is Professor of Mathematics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong from 1995 to 2013. From 2013, he is a Canada Research Chair Professor at University of British Columbia. Professor Wei is an internationally renown expert in the field of nonlinear elliptic equations and mathematical biology. His research interests range from Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Reaction-Diffusion Systems to Mathematical Biology. One of his outstanding contributions is the counterexample to the long-standing De Giorgi Conjecture. He is the recipient of Morningside Silver Medal of Mathematics (2010), First Class Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award of Ministry of Education of China (2010), Young Researcher Award (2005) and Research Excellence Award (2009-2010) of Chinese University of Hong Kong,  Invited Speaker at 2014 International Congress of Mathematicians. In 2019 he was elected as a Fellow of Royal Society of Canada. In 2020, he was awarded the Jeffrey-Williams Prize from Canadian Mathematical Society and also Simons Fellows from the Simons Foundations. Cited over 19000 times, he is included in the ISI Highly Cited Researcher (ISIHighlyCited.com) of all years. As of 2023, Professor Wei's scholarly work has been cited over 19300 times, with an H-index of 70.  From research.com, he was ranked number 9 in Canada in Mathematics.  (2023)