Carlos-Andres Palma came from Germany to China in 2017 to work as a professor of physics of molecular architecture and interfaces at the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The reason that he came to China was because the opening China can offer opportunities to young scientists like him to follow up and study the world's latest academic achievements and expand research fields, Carlos-Andres Palma said. "In China, to young scientists like me, there are unprecedented chances and challenges," he said, adding that "we need to discover and solve more new problems and promote the development of science."