The University of Huelva, Andalucia Province, Spain has celebrated on Thursday, January 9th, in the Aula de Grados of the Faculty of Experimental Sciences, the Solemn Academic Ceremony of investiture as Doctor Honoris Causa of Professor Craig Darrian Roberts, International Distinguished Professor in the School of Physics at Nanjing University (NJU) and Head of the Institute for Nonperturbative Physics at NJU.
The investiture was made in recognition of Prof. Roberts's prestigious and influential career as a leading and highly cited researcher in the field of high-energy nuclear and particle physics and, particularly, acknowledged Prof. Roberts's efforts to raise the international profile of the University of Huelva's Center for Studies in Physics, Mathematics and Computation. The ceremony was attended by numerous academic authorities; professors and researchers from various universities throughout Spain, including Seville, Valencia, Granada, Pablo de Olavide, and from international institutions, including centres in China, France, Italy, Portugal, and the USA; and officials from the governments of Andalusia Province and Huelva City.
The University of Huelva is the leading institution for higher education in Andalusia Province, the most populous region of Spain and is internationally renowned as a training centre for education and nursing, and for research in chemistry, mining engineering, and physics.
In accepting the award, Prof. Roberts joined a prestigious group, which includes the Nobel Prize laureate Roberts H. Grubbs and the former president of the American Psychology Association, Robert J. Sternberg. Today, only ten people worldwide hold an honorary doctorate from the University of Huelva. Insofar as available records can attest, Prof. Roberts is the first academic from the NJU School of Physics and one of the very few distinguished representatives from China to receive this honour.
Source: El físico Craig Darrian Roberts, nuevo Doctor Honoris Causa de la UHU | Universidad de Huelva
