Prof. Alessandro Sepe Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry----Shanghai Advanced Research Institute,Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Prof. Alessandro Sepe Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry

date： 2024-07-05

Prof. Alessandro Sepe, Head of the Scientific Computing Program at the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF), Shanghai Advanced Research Institute (SARI), Chinese Academy of Sciences, has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in recognition of the eminent seminal work in advancing excellence in the internationally impacting multidisciplinary and multimodal science at the large scientific facilities through the visionary research, development and implementation of state-of-the-art scientific computing, and resulting in the establishment at the SSRF of the first Superfacility in China, and one of the first worldwide.

The Royal Society of Chemistry is the oldest and one of most prestigious society in its field in the world, and being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry represents one of the most significant academic accolades worldwide.

Prof. Sepe joined the SSRF in 2018, where he helm and lead the Scientific Computing Program, which resulted in several outstanding milestones, including, architecting, deploying and establishing the Big Data Science Center (BDSC), designing, developing and deploying the Artificial Intelligence – SSRF – Superfacility Platform (AI-SSRF-SP), architecting and deploying the Scientific Cloud / Edge Hybrid Infrastructure, as well as designing, developing and deploying scientific computing pipelines for the automation of multidisciplinary experiments at the SSRF beamlines.

Prof. Sepe accomplishments resulted in national and international accolades. He was awarded the I-LAMP Medal and Award by the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milano, Italy for his outstanding academic career in Big Data Science applied to multidisciplinary science at large scientific facilities in 2019 and the Magnolia Medal and Award by the Chinese Government for his outstanding contributions in supporting the development of the major national science and technology infrastructures in 2022.