BEIJING: International science and technology cooperation with China is vital for pushing the boundaries of science and creating innovations and solutions to benefit human societies, a noted German scientist said.
Encouraging open and interdisciplinary collaboration and enhancing support for basic research and female scientists are conducive to China’s transformation into an innovative nation, Claudia Felser, director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, told China Daily in an exclusive interview.
This year marks the 45th anniversary of China’s reform and opening-up. Having visited China over a dozen of times since 2007, Felser said she has been very impressed by the country’s progress in science and technology over the years, and the quantity and quality of scientific talents it has produced.
“Many of my colleagues and students in Germany are Chinese,” she said, adding that the institute has had a tradition of maintaining strong academic interactions with its Chinese peers.
Reform and opening-up are significant for scientific development and international cooperation, Felser said. Since 2007, she has collaborated with Chinese researchers from the Institute of Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in the cutting-edge field of quantum materials, with the shared goal of creating new materials with distinctive qualities to serve the major strategic needs of countries.
China is now “one of the global front-runners in quantum materials”, thanks to its wealth of quality mathematical and physics professionals doing innovative research, Felser said. –The Daily Mail-China Daily news exchange item
