Cao Jun

Cao Jun is a researcher and vice-director at the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also a “New Cornerstone Investigator”. Cao serves as the co-spokesperson of the Dayawan Reactor Neutrino Experiment International Collaboration, executive deputy manager and deputy spokesperson of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), and initiator of the Taishan Antineutrino Observatory (TAO). 

In 2012, he received the National Distinguished Young Scholar Fund, and as a key member, he was awarded the First Prize in National Natural Science Award in 2016.