Mei Jianjun () is an archaeo-metallurgist. As of January 2014, he became Director of the Needham Research Institute, as well as a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University. He served as President of the International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine (ISHEASTM) in 2015. His book 
"Copper and bronze metallurgy in late prehistoric Xinjiang" (2001) presented "significant new archaeological data" relating to the introduction and use of copper and bronze in Xinjiang province and neighboring areas.
Education.
Mei Jianjun is a graduate of the Beijing University of Iron and Steel Technology from which 
he received a B.Eng in Metallurgical Chemistry in 1984. In 1988, he received an M.Sc in the History of Science and Technology. In 1994, he became a Li Foundation scholar at the Needham Research Institute at the University of Cambridge. In 2000 he received his Ph.D. from the Department of Archaeology at Cambridge.
Mei then held postdoctoral fellowships at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge (2000-2001), the Needham Research Institute (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation fellowship, 2003-2004), and the Tokyo National Museum (2001-2003).
Career.
In 2004, Mei became a Professor and Director of the Institute of Historical Metallurgy and Materials at the renamed University of Science and Technology Beijing.
In 2014, Mei became director of the Needham Research Institute at Cambridge.
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