Max Lu

Max Lu
AO, FAA, FTSE, FIChemE, FRSC
逯高清
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Surrey
Assumed office
April 2016
Preceded by Sir Christopher Snowden

Gaoqing Max Lu AO, FAA, FTSE, DL, FIChemE, FRSC (Chinese: 逯高清; born 8 November 1963) is a Chinese–Australian chemical engineer and nanotechnologist. He has been President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Surrey, in Guildford, Surrey, UK since April 2016.[1][2] Previously he was Provost and Senior Vice-President at the University of Queensland[3] where, in 2013, he was named one of the country's Top 100 Most Influential Engineers,[4] received a Queensland Greats Award in 2013,[5] and won the inaugural Australia-China Achievement Award (Education) in 2014.[6]

In 2017 Lu was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to education and international research in the field of materials chemistry and nanotechnology, to engineering, and to Australia–China relations.[7][8]

He has been appointed to the Boards of National Physical Laboratory, Universities UK, Leadership Council of the National Centre for Universities and Business and as Deputy Lieutenant of Surrey. He is also a patron of Transforming Housing.

Biography

Professor Lu lectured at Nanyang Technological University from 1991 to 1994, and had held academic and leadership positions at the University of Queensland from 1994 to 2016, rising from senior lecturer to chair professor. He founded the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials and served as its inaugural director for 8 years. He was awarded the Australian Research Council (ARC) Federation Fellowship twice, respectively, in 2003 and 2008.

As a Thomson Reuters double Highly Cited Researcher in both Materials Science and Chemistry, he has published over 500 journal papers on nanomaterials (h=108 and over 45,650 citations @Scopus). He is co-inventor of more than 20 granted international patents.  He has been honoured with numerous awards including 2001 Orica Award, 2003 RK Murphy Medal, 2002 Le Fevre Prize, 2007 ExxonMobil Award, 2011 China International Science and Technology Cooperation Award, 2015 Japan Chemical Society Lecture Award, 2011 Chemeca Medal and 2016 P.V. Danckwerts Lecture.

References

  1. ↑ "Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE)". atse.org.au. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
  2. ↑ "University of Surrey appoints Professor Max Lu as its Vice-Chancellor". University of Surrey - Guildford. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
  3. ↑ "University of Surrey appoints China-born nanotechnologist as next v-c". Times Higher Education (THE). Retrieved 22 April 2016.
  4. ↑ "Top 100 : 2013, Page 1". realviewtechnologies.com. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
  5. ↑ "2013 Queensland Greats recipients". Queensland Government. Archived from the original on 31 May 2017. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
  6. ↑ "Australia-China Achievement Awards - winners and finalists announced". Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
  7. ↑ "Officer (AO) in the General Division of the Order of Australia" (PDF). Australia Day 2017 Honours List. Governor-General of Australia. 26 January 2017. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
  8. ↑ "University of Surrey Vice-Chancellor awarded Officer in the general division of the Order of Australia". University of Surrey – Guildford. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
Academic offices
Preceded by
Sir Christopher Snowden		 Vice-Chancellor of the University of Surrey
2016–present 		Incumbent
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