Friday, October 17, 2008

Lu Yongxiang

Lu Yongxiang , aka Yung-Hsiang LU, is the current President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Biography


Lu was born in April 1942 in Cixi City, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. Lu studied in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University, and majored at hydrodynamics . He graduated from Zhejiang University in 1964, and became a lecture in his department at ZJU. 1979, Lu was an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at RWTH Aachen, West Germany. Lu obtained his doctorate in 1981, based on his dissertation ''Entwicklung vorgesteuerter Proportionalventile mit 2-Wege-Einbauventil als Stellglied und mit ger?teinterner Rückführung. Aachen: Techn. Hochsch.; Diss.; 1981''.

1981, Lu went back to Zhejiang University and continued his teaching position as a lecturer. He soon was promoted to associate professor and was the research group leader of the Laboratory of Fluid Power Transmission and Control at ZJU. 1983, Lu was promoted to professor, and was the director of the Institute of Fluid Power Transmission and Control, Department of Mechanical Engineering, ZJU. From 1985 to 1987, Lu served as Vice-president of ZJU; and from 1988 to 1995, he was the President of ZJU. Lu is also a part-time professor at Tsinghua University.

Lu was assigned Vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in November 1993. From 1993 to 1997, he was the Executive Vice-president of CAS. Since July 1997, he is the President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and also the Executive Chairman of the Presidential Committee of CAS Academic Board . Since 2003, Lu is the Vice-chairman of National People's Congress.

Academic & educational positions



Presidentship:
Vice-president, the Chinese Academy of Sciences ,
Executive Vice-president, CAS,
Executive Chairman, the Presidential Committee of CAS Academic Board,
President, CAS,
Vice-president, Chinese Association of Science and Technology ,
Chairman, Higher Education Consultative Committee of the State Education Commission,
Chief Director , Chinese Society for the History of Science and Technology ,
Chief Director, Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society ,
Vice-president, Third World Academy of Sciences ,
Co-Chair, InterAcademy Council ,

Memberships:
Academician, the Chinese Academy of Engineering ,
Academician, the Chinese Academy of Sciences , in the Division of Technological Sciences,
Member, University Grants Committee ,
Member, Third World Academy of Sciences ,
Foreign Member, Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
Honorary Fellow, the Institute of Mechanical Engineering, UK,
Corresponding Member, the Australian Academy of Science,
Foreign Member, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina,
Foreign Member, Russian Academy of Sciences,

Social & political positions


Vice-chairman, National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China,
Member, Chief Executive's Commission on Innovation and Technology, Hong Kong SAR,
Special Advisor, Advisory Commission on Innovation and Technology, Hong Kong SAR,

Honors & awards


Rudolf-Diesel-Medaille
Alexander von Humboldt Medal
The Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany,
Werner Heisenberg Medal , from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Gold Badge for Science and Culture of Public President of Italy,
Abdus Salam Medal, from the Third World Academy of Sciences ,
Harnack medal , from the Max Planck Institute

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