Prof. Dr. Mannque Rho received his Ph.D in nuclear physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1965. The following year, he visited CEA Saclay and became a professor of the institute and has been there ever since. Rho was a visiting scholar at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1969/70. He held many inviting positions and was a visiting professor four times at the State University of New York Stony Brook from 1973 to 1989. He was a professor at the School of Physics at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study from 2002 to 2003. Rho received an honorary Doctor of Science from his alma mater Clark University in 2003. Currently, he is a research professor of theoretical physics, 'Expert Senior du CEA' and scientific counsellor at CEA Saclay, France and also a chair professor of Hanyang University, South Korea since 2009. Rho is known for his works on the properties of hadrons in normal and extreme environments present in heavy nuclei and relativistic heavy-ion collisions and compact stars. His research keywords include dense baryonic matter; compact stars; topology in nuclei; and nuclear matter.