Department Emeritus Professor Howell Tong elected as a member of the Academia Europaea

Department Emeritus Professor Howell Tong has been elected a member of the Academia Europaea. Congratulations Howell on this fantastic and well deserved achievement.

A pioneer in nonlinear time series analysis and the founder of threshold time series models, Professor Tong is a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Studies, a Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Department of Statistics and Data Science at Tsinghua University, China, and the Gregory Chow Distinguished Professor at Xiamen University, China. Professor Tong has been awarded several honors, including: the Guy Medal in Silver from the Royal Statistical Society; the State Natural Science Award (Second Class) of China; and a Distinguished Research Achievement Award from the University of Hong Kong. He was elected as a Foreign Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in the Mathematics Group.

Founded in 1988, the Academia Europaea serves as the 'National Academy of Sciences', and statutory scientific advisor, for the European Union. It was co-founded by the Royal Society (UK) and national academies representing the highest academic standards in countries such as France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Sweden. It comprises four wings—Humanities and Arts, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Life Sciences—covering over 20 disciplines. It is one of the most extensive and influential international scientific organizations in the world.