Johan van Benthem appointed Distinguished International  Expert by the Chinese Ministry of Education

In 2009, the Chinese Ministry of Education initiated a highly competitive national program of Distinguished International Experts. The first such expert appointed at Tsinghua University (the top-ranked university in China) is Johan van Benthem, University Professor of Logic at the ILLC, UvA. His task will be to further contacts in his field between Tsinghua, the UvA, and other major universities in his field. The award was conferred in a ceremony on Thursday 16 June 2011.

For more information, see http://www.tsinghua.edu.cn/publish/shss/1839/2011/20110620102553607697048/.