Shanghai. Tiziano Cattaneo, a researcher at the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture at the University of Pavia and head of the “China Lab for Architecture and Urban Studies” is the winner of the Thousand Talents Plan project. Since the end of 2008, the Chinese government has launched the “Recruitment Programme of Global Expert” better known as “The Thousand Talents Plan” with the aim of bringing top foreign researchers to China. Based on the research and development objectives – defined in the five-year plans by the Chinese government – the Thousand Talents Plan aims to recruit foreign scientists for the initiation and / or consolidation of scientific, industrial and technological innovation programmes in the disciplines considered strategic and emerging. Tiziano Cattaneo is invited to the College of Design and Innovation at Tongji University in Shanghai as Chair Professor for three years. (9colonne)
