Prof. Zeshui Xu of the Business School has been elected as a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts(EASA) at its recent board meeting. He was invited to attend the new members ceremony which will be held in Salzburg, Austria in March 2022.

Being founded in Salzburg in 1990, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts is an international, non-governmental, and non-profit organization committed to promoting scientific and societal progress. There are over 2,000 members who are leading scientists, artists, and business experts in Humanities; Medicine; Arts; Natural Sciences; Social Sciences, Law and Economics; Technical and Environmental Sciences; World Religions; and Corporate and Public Governance. Among them are 32 Nobel Laureates.

Being an IEEE fellow, IFSA fellow, IET fellow, BCS fellow and RSA fellow, Zeshui Xu has been selected as Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers and included in The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds 2014-2020; and Most Cited Chinese Researchers ( Ranked first in Computer Science, 2014-2019 ). He has also been awarded the Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education ( 2 first prizes and 1 second prize ). He now is a member of editorial board, consultant editorial board, deputy editor-in-chief and editor-in-chief for IEEE, TFS, INS, KBS, INFFUS, FODM, IJFS, TEDE, JMLC, APIN and SSCI/SCI. He has published 18 monographs in English through Springer, 650 SSCI/SCI papers, and been cited over 68,000 times. His H- Index is 133.