Li Bin, male, born in 1963 in Wuhan, Hubei Province, entered the Department of Nuclear Physics of Peking University in 1981, graduated with a B.Sc. degree in 1985, received a M.Sc. degree in 1988 and stayed in the Department, teaching in the Department of Theoretical Nuclear Physics, and entered the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics in the autumn of 1990 to pursue his Ph. In the autumn of 1990, he joined the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics, specialising in science and technology in arms control. In the summer of 1993, he obtained his PhD degree and joined the Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics in Beijing. In the summer of 1994, he was awarded a Post-doctoral Fellowship in Peace and Security in a Changing World by the Social Science Research Council / Mac Arthur Foundation and joined the International Studies Program at MIT. In the summer of 1995, he was transferred to the Nuclear Policy Research Program at Princeton University's Center for Energy and Environmental Studies (now the Science and Global Security Research Program at the Wilson School of Public Administration) on the same fellowship to continue his post-doctoral research in the same area. Beijing Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, where he was appointed as a Research Associate. Immediately afterwards, he joined the Chinese delegation to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva to negotiate the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. After the negotiations, he set up a research unit on arms control at the Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics in Beijing and became its director. In the summer of 1999, he moved to the China Institute of Youth Politics, where he set up the Institute of Science and Public Affairs, and in late 2000 he moved to the Institute of International Studies at Tsinghua University.

Since 1990, Li Bin has worked in the areas of non-weaponisation of outer space, nuclear test ban, ballistic missile defence, nuclear non-proliferation, nuclear disarmament and export control. Li Bin's current research interests include: US-China nuclear relations, and export controls.

Currently Li Bin is a professor and PhD supervisor at Tsinghua University, where he is in charge of the Arms Control Program. He is on the editorial board of Science & Global Security, the editorial board of Nonproliferation Review, a board member of the China Arms Control Association, and a board member of the China-US Friendship Association.

For details of Li Bin's teaching, research, admissions and training, please visit Li Bin's homepage: http://learn.tsinghua.edu.cn:8080/2000990313/index.htm

Address: 100084, Department of International Relations, Tsinghua University, Beijing

Tel: (010-) 62773391, 62788801

Fax: (010-) 62773173

Email: libin@tsinghua.edu.cn

Personal homepage: http://learn.tsinghua.edu.cn:8080/2000990313/index.htm