Paul Ching-Wu Chu, T. L. L. Temple Chair of Science and professor of physics, has been elected a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Engineering (RAE) in recognition of his contributions to the advancement of science and engineering.

The induction ceremony took place in Hong Kong during the RAE’s Sixth International Scientific Forum.

Senior science adviser and founding director of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at UH, Chu is president of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and a pioneer in the field of superconductivity. Chu’s groundbreaking research in high temperature superconductivity has earned him global recognition.

Chu is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Academia Sinica and the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World. Chu has received numerous honors, including the National Medal of Science, the highest honor possible for a scientist in the United States. He also has been awarded the Bernd Matthias Prize and the John Fritz Medal, which he holds with science and engineering icons such as Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison.

The Russian Academy of Engineering, formerly named the USSR Academy of Engineering, was founded in 1990 to develop applied science and technologies in engineering.

Susan Butler
sbulter@uh.edu