On December 12, 2011, an appointment ceremony on the Visiting Professor for senior international scientist of CAS was held at Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Prof. Ruxin Li, SIOM director, granted Prof. Hellmut Eckert the certificate as the visiting professor for senior international scientist of CAS.

Prof. Hellmut Eckert is a well-known distinguished professor in Material Chemistry and Solid-state NMR. He is the head of Chemistry department, Muenster University, Germany. Up to date, he has already published over 300 papers in Nature Materials, Angew. Chemie, PRL, JACS, Adv. Mater. etc., which have already cited around 7000 times by SCI-journals.

After the ceremony, Prof. Hellmut Eckert gave the presentation entitled by “D New Magnetic Resonance Approaches towards the Structural Characterization of Luminescent Ceramic Materials” He introduced that glasses and vitroceramics based have been introduced as excellent alternatives to single crystalline host materials for luminescent rare-earth ions with special laser applications. SIOM related researchers had hot discussions with Prof. Hellmut Eckert after his presentation.