CityU has selected Physicist Professor Zhang Jie to receive an Honorary Doctor of Science in 2009. Professor Zhang is the president of Shanghai Jiao Tong University and an expert in x-ray lasers, high field and laser-plasma physics. He was elected as an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2003, a Member of German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2007 and a Fellow of Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) in 2008. Professor Zhang has received many prestigious awards, including the 2007 TWAS Prize in Physics, CAS 2007 Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement Prize and the Chinese State Council’s Natural Sciences Prize in 2006. Before taking the helm of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, he was Director General of the Bureau of Basic Sciences of CAS (2003-2006), Deputy Director of the Institute of Physics of CAS (1998-2003), and Director of the Laboratory of Optical Physics of CAS (2003-2009).