On 9th January 2025, in a solemn academic ceremony that followed traditions established hundreds of years ago, Craig D. Roberts, International Distinguished Professor in the School of Physics at Nanjing University (NJU) and Head of the Institute for Nonperturbative Physics at NJU, was invested with a Doctoratum Honoris Causa – an honorary doctorate – by the University of Huelva, Andalucia Province, Spain.
The investment 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 person from the NJU School of Physics and one of only very few people in all China to be honored in this way.
Highlights from the event and an associated video montage are available here
https://www.uhu.es/noticias/el-fisico-craig-darrian-roberts-nuevo-doctor-honoris-causa-de-la-uhu
and a documentary video is available
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