Mei Jianjun


Mei Jianjun is an archaeo-metallurgist. As of January 2014, he became Director of the Needham Research Institute, as well as a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University. He served as President of the International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine in 2015. His book
Copper and bronze metallurgy in late prehistoric Xinjiang presented "significant new archaeological data" relating to the introduction and use of copper and bronze in Xinjiang province and neighboring areas.

Education

Mei Jianjun is a graduate of the Beijing University of Iron and Steel Technology from which
he received a B.Eng in Metallurgical Chemistry in 1984. In 1988, he received an M.Sc in the History of Science and Technology. In 1994, he became a Li Foundation scholar at the Needham Research Institute at the University of Cambridge. In 2000 he received his Ph.D. from the Department of Archaeology at Cambridge.
Mei then held postdoctoral fellowships at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge, the Needham Research Institute, and the Tokyo National Museum.

Career

In 2004, Mei became a Professor and Director of the Institute of Historical Metallurgy and Materials at the renamed University of Science and Technology Beijing.
In 2014, Mei became director of the Needham Research Institute at Cambridge.

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