To acknowledge her outstanding achievements in the world of scientific and technical data, Prof. LIU Chuang with the CAS Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research has been recently elected by the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) to win the 2008 CODATA Prize.

The CODATA Prize, established in 2000, is a biennial prize awarded by CODATA under the International Council for Science. Prof. Liu is the first woman scientist as well as the first scientist from a developing country to receive this honor. She has scored a batch of achievements in the areas of S&T data management, policy making, education and international cooperation.

The Prize will be presented at the 21st International CODATA Conference in October in Kyiv, Ukraine. Prof. Liu will give a winner presentation at the conference.

Source: http://english.cas.ac.cn/