Twenty-nine prominent Chinese scientists have been elected as CAS Members and five of their colleagues from US, France and Russia as CAS Foreign Members in 2007. The announcement was made by CAS Vice President LI Jinghai at a press conference held on 27 December in Beijing. Dr. Mu Mu from LASG, IAP was one of the twenty-nine newly elected academicians.

Dr. Mu Mu received his first degree from the Department of Mathmatics, Anhui University in 1978 and his PhD degree from Fudan University in 1985. He did his post doctoral research in Institute of Atmospheric Physics , Chinese Academy of Sciences from 1987-1988. He has been collaborating with scientists in University of Toronto , Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences of Cambridge University , Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD) in France and International Pacific Research Center (IPRC) of University of Hawaii . He has been the deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (LASG), IAP/CAS, and the deputy director of Academic Committee of Institute of Atmospheric Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences.

He is now editors of Chinese Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, Advances in Marine Sciences, Progress in Natural Science, the reviewer of Mathematical Reviews, members of the International Commission for Planetary Atmospheres and Their Evolution (ICPAE) and the International Commission for Dynamical Meteorology (ICDM) of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric  Sciences(IAMAS).

Dr. Mu Mu has published more than 90 papers in the international and domestic journals and he was asked to give invited presentations in many important international conferences. Over the years, Dr. Mu Mu has received several awards, including the Youth Prize of China Association for Science and Technology (1990), the First Class Prize of Chinese Academy of Science for Young scientist (1991), the Chinese Young Scientist Prize (1994), " Guoshi " Postdoctoral Award (1995), first awardee of the First Class Prize of Nature Scientific Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2001), National-wide Excellent Post Doc of Ministry of Personnel (2005), “Baojie” Excellent Supervisor prize and Excellent Teacher Prize of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2006). His PhD students also won CAS Excellent PhD Thesis Prize and 100 National-wide Excellent PhD Thesis Prize.

His expertise includes: 

(1) Predictability of weather and climate; 

(2) Data assimilation , ensemble prediction and adaptive observation ;

(3) Nonlinear stability and instability problems in geophysical fluid dynamics