(XINHUA)

Wang En'ge was appointed President of Peking University (PKU) on March 22, becoming the 11th PKU President since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949.

Wang was born in 1957. After receiving a doctor's degree in physics from PKU in 1990, Wang went to study and work at French and U.S. universities. In 1995, he came back from the United States to work in the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). In 2007, Wang was elected academician of the CAS. He served as executive vice president of PKU before the appointment.