Past-President, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Co-Chair, InterAcademy Council

Professor LU Yongxiang is Past-President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering; Vice-Chairman of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council; President of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society; Professor of Zhejiang University; and Honorary Professor of the U of Hong Kong. Professor Lu received his Dr-Ing in Engineering from TU Aachen, Germany in 1981.He holds a number of honorary Doctorates, including from Hong Kong, Australia, the UK, Ukraine, Sweden and New Zealand.  Professor Lu’s academis field is the development of mechanical and control engineering, especially in the field of fluid power transmission and control, and engineering higher education. He has 25 patents in China, Europe and USA, and has published over 250 papers and 8 monographs. Professor Lu has been awarded two National Invention Awards in 1988 and in 1989; National Engineering Higher Education Prize of China in 1989 and in 2005; the super prize for Guanghua Science Foundation in 1993. He has received many honors from Germany for his accomplishments, including Rudolf-Diesel Medal in Gold in 1997, Alexander von Humboldt Medal in 1998, the Knight Commander’s Cross (Badge & Star) of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2000 and Werner Heisenberg Medal in 2001. He received the Gold Badge for Science and Culture of Public President of Italy in 2004; He was awarded the Abdus Salam Medal of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) and The Harnack Medal of Max-Planck society of Germany in 2006. Prof. Lu has served as Vice-Chairman of the China Association for Science and Technology; Vice-President, International Association for Continuing Engineering Education; Chairman of the Higher Education Consultative Committee of the State Education Commission; President, the China Association for Continuing Engineering Education; Chairman of China History of S&T Society. He has been Member of the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong SAR; Member of the Chief Executive’s Commission on Innovation and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, Special Advisor of the Advisory Commission on Innovation and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, from 2000; Vice President of TWAS; Honorary Foreign Member of the Korean Academy of Sciences and Technology in 1999; Honorary Fellow of Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering, UK; the Corresponding Member of the Australian Academy of Science in 2004; Member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina, Foreign Fellow of Russian Academy of Sciences in 2005.