Nicolai Reshetikhin, a tenured professor at Tsinghua University and a world-class mathematical physicist, has been awarded the 2024 Chinese Government Friendship Award.

In recognition of their contributions to China's development, Reshetikhin was one of 100 foreign experts who were conferred with the 2024 Chinese Government Friendship Award on September 30.

Reshetikhin is an expert in the field of mathematical physics and one of the founders of quantum group theory and Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants. He is a significant contributor to the theory of quantum integrable systems, an important contributor to Poisson geometry and symplectic geometry, and has made significant contributions to quantum Kac-Moody algebras. He is also a pioneer in the quantum 6j symbols related to quantum gravity.

He is currently working at Tsinghua's Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, where he teaches courses such as Knot Invariants and 3-Manifolds, dedicating his efforts to nurturing the next generation of leading mathematicians. In 2022, he was awarded the Weyl-Wigner Award, a top international prize in mathematical physics.

The Friendship Award is the highest honor for foreign experts who have made outstanding contributions to China's modernization drive. Up to now, 17 foreign experts from Tsinghua University have been honored with this award.

Editor: Li Han