Bailin Hao, born on 26 June 1934 in Beijing, China

Study at Department of Coal Mining, Kharkov Institute for Egnineering Economics, Kharkov, Ukraine, 1954-1956.

Graduated from Department of Mathematics and Physics, Kharkov State University, Kharkov, Ukraine, Dipoma with Honor, in 1959.

Graduate study at Moscow State University and The Institute of Physical Problems, USSR Academy of Sciences (1961-1963)

Research Assistant (1959-1963), Research Associate (1963-1978), and Research Professor (1978) at the Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica.

Founding Member and Research Professor at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Academia Sinica, since its establishment in 1978.

Professor at the T-Life Research Center, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, since 2001.

Senior International Fellow (2002-2003), External Faculty (2005-2011), Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, USA.

Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, elected November 1980.

Member of the Academy of Science for the Developing World (TWAS), elected 1995.

Mailing address: The Institute of Theoretical Physics, 55 Zhongguancun East Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100080, China; T-Life Research Center, Fudan University, 220 Handan Road, Shanghai 200433, China.

E-mail: hao @ mail. itp .ac .cn

Fax: (86)10 6256 2587 (ITP, Beijing); (86)21 6565 2305 (T-Life, Shanghai)

Office phone: (86)10 6254 1807 (ITP, Beijing); (86)21 6565 2305 (T-Life, Shanghai)