Prof. IP Wing Huen is a renowned Chinese astronomer, and academician of the Academia Sinica of Taiwan and the International Academy of Astronautics. His main research areas include comets, planetary atmosphere and Earth’s upper atmosphere, the solar system and formulation of planets, and solar system plasma physics.

In 1982, Academician IP and French scientist Daniel Gautier made a proposal to the European Space Agency on a mission to probe into the Saturn system, which is now known as the Cassini–Huygens mission. For his great contributions to the Cassini–Huygens mission, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded him the Exceptional Public Service Medal in 2009. In addition, he and astronomer Julio A. Fernandez, who currently works at the University of the Republic of Uruguay, jointly proposed a theory on migration of the outer planets of the solar system during the solar system formation process in 1984, which has proved to be seminal in studies on the evolutionary history of the solar system.

Prof. IP has published over 300 journal papers, many of which were published in Nature and Science. He’s received many special honors from the academic community, including membership at the American Geophysical Union and the Physical Society of Taiwan, the K.T. Lee Chair Professor title, the Exceptional Public Service Medal by NASA, and the Axford Medal by the Asia-Oceania Geosciences Society.

Prof. IP’s family was originally from Meizhou, Guandong; he was born in Nanjing and grew up in Macao. He is now Academician of the Academia Sinica of Taiwan, professor of the Graduate Institute of Astronomy and the Graduate Institute of Space Science, National Central University, Taiwan, and distinguished professor of the Space Science Institute, Macau University of Science and Technology, and has trained and cultivated a great number of excellent Chinese scholars.