Bo Peng

Bo Peng received the Ph.D. degree from the Beijing Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 1993. He has been working at radio astronomy research and technology development on large sky survey, transient phenomenon, giant radio galaxies, space weather and radio telescope instrumentation. He joined the global cooperation on the planned largest radio telescope array Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Project, in 1993, conducting the first SKA site survey on Radio Frequency Interferometer (RFI) measurements, in 1994. He is one of the key persons to initiate, develop and lead the largest single dish Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST). He was the group founding leader of Large Telescope in 1994, becomes the Board member of the international SKA Project in 1999, and Director of the CAS Key Laboratory of FAST, in 2018.