Ouyang Xiaoping


Ouyang Xiaoping is a Chinese nuclear physicist who is a deputy director of the Department of Energy and Mining Engineering, Chinese Academy of Engineering, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He was an alternate of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

Biography

Ouyang was born in Haikou, Guangdong, on 24 January 1961, while his ancestral home in Ningyuan County, Hunan. In 1979, he entered Hunan Lingling Normal College and later the, graduating in 1989 with a bachelor's degree in experimental nuclear physics. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in October 1991. From 1999 to 2000, he was a visiting scholar at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States. In 2002, he received his doctor's degree in particle physics and nuclear physics from Fudan University. From 2004 to 2006, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Tsinghua University.
In June 2014, he was recruited as dean of the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xiangtan University. In October 2017, he became an alternate of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. In 2022, he took office as deputy director of the Department of Energy and Mining Engineering, Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Personal life

Ouyang is married and has a daughter.

Honours and awards