Lu Yongxiang

Lu Yongxiang (Simplified Chinese:路甬祥; Traditional Chinese:路甬祥; Pinyin:Lù Yǒngxiáng) (born April, 1942), 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 (hydraulic mechanics). He graduated from Zhejiang University (ZJU) 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 geräteinterner Rückführung. Aachen: Techn. Hochsch.; Diss.; 1981".

1981, Lu went back to Zhejiang University (ZJU) 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 (CAS) in November 1993. From 1993 to 1997, he was the Executive Vice-president (常务副院长) of CAS. Since July 1997, he is the President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and also the Executive Chairman (执行主席) of the Presidential Committee of CAS Academic Board (中国科学院学部主席团). Since 2003, Lu is the Vice-chairman of National People's Congress.

Academic & educational positions

Presidentship:
* Vice-president, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), (1993-1997)
* Executive Vice-president, CAS, (1994-1997)
* Executive Chairman, the Presidential Committee of CAS Academic Board, (1997-present)
* President, CAS, (1997-present)
* Vice-president, Chinese Association of Science and Technology (中国科学技术协会), (1986-1996)
* Chairman, Higher Education Consultative Committee of the State Education Commission, (1990-1994)
* Chief Director (理事长), Chinese Society for the History of Science and Technology (中国科学技术史学会), (1995-2004)
* Chief Director, Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society (中国机械工程学会), (2001-present)
* Vice-president, Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), (1998-2006)
* Co-Chair, InterAcademy Council (IAC), (2005-present)

Memberships:
* Academician, the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), (June 1994 election)
* Academician, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in the Division of Technological Sciences, (1991 election)
* Member, University Grants Committee (Hong Kong), (1996-2003)
* Member, Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), (1990-)
* Foreign Member, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, (2004-)
* Honorary Fellow, the Institute of Mechanical Engineering, UK, (2004-)
* Corresponding Member, the Australian Academy of Science, (2004-)
* Foreign Member, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, (2005-)
* Foreign Member, Russian Academy of Sciences, (2006-)

ocial & political positions

* Vice-chairman, National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China, (2003-present)
* Member, Chief Executive's Commission on Innovation and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, (1998-1999)
* Special Advisor, Advisory Commission on Innovation and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, (2000-present)

Honors & awards

* Rudolf-Diesel-Medaille (1997)
* Alexander von Humboldt Medal (1998)
* The Knight Commander's Cross (Badge & Star) of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, (2000)
* Werner Heisenberg Medal (2001), from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
* Gold Badge for Science and Culture of Public President of Italy, (2004)
* Abdus Salam Medal, from the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), (2006)
* Harnack medal (2006), from the Max Planck Institute

Extra links

* [http://files.asme.org/asmeorg/Governance/StrategicManagement/IAB/14486.pdf Professor LU Yongxiang Curriculum vitae]