According to media reports, the relevant person in charge of Tsinghua University first confirmed this news. The person in charge said that after careful consideration and careful communication with various colleges and schools, Yan Ning has decided to accept the position of Shirley Tillman, tenured professor in the Department of Molecular Biology of Princeton University, and will take up her post in the near future.
He revealed that during his employment, Yan Ning will continue to engage in high-level academic research and personnel training at Princeton University, and will also keep in touch with Tsinghua. Under the condition of meeting the standards of the two universities, he will arrange time to continue to engage in certain scientific research and teaching work in Tsinghua, so as to further deepen and improve academic exchanges and cooperation between the two universities and between China and the United States.
What influence will young scientists, represented by Yan Ning, have on China University, which is undergoing the construction of "double first-class"? The person in charge bluntly said that this is a normal phenomenon of international high-level talent flow. Tsinghua maintains an open, optimistic and positive attitude towards this. "In recent years, the level of university teachers in China has been continuously improved, and the flow of teachers with world-class universities has become increasingly frequent and cooperation has become increasingly close. For example, He Shi returned to Tsinghua from Princeton, which promoted the development of related disciplines in Tsinghua and strengthened the cooperation between China and the United States in scientific research and other fields. Yan Ning chose to return to Princeton University again. We believe that this will help spread China's academic thoughts, educational ideas and Tsinghua's academic style to the international academic arena and have a greater impact. "