Paul CW Chu

Dr. Paul C. W. Chu is currently serving as Professor of Physics, T. L. L. Temple Chair of Science, and Executive Director of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston, and as President of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He was born in Hunan, China, and received a B.S. degree from Cheng-Kung University in Taiwan. After service with the Nationalist Chinese Air Force, he earned his M.S. degree from Fordham University, Bronx NY, and completed his PH.D. at the University of California at San Diego. All three degrees were obtained in the field of Physics. He has been working on Superconductivity, Magnetism, and Dielectrics. After doing industrial research with Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, Dr. Chu held an academic appointment at Cleveland State University. He assumed his appointment at the University of Houston in 1979. He was Director of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston between 1987 and 2001. He had also served as consultant and visiting staff member at Bell Labs, Los Alamos National Lab, the Marshall Space Flight Center, Argonne National Lab, and DuPont at various times. He has been working on superconductivity since his days with Bernd T. Matthias at the University of California at San Diego.