President, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Co-Chair, InterAcademy Council

Professor LU Yongxiang is currently President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); Chairman of the CAS Presidium; Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering; Vice-Chairman of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Counci1; President of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society; Professor of Zhejiang University; and Honorary Professor of the University of Hong Kong.

Professor Lu received his Doctor Degree in Engineering (Dr.–Ing) from the Technical University of Aachen, Germany in 1981.He holds a number of honorary Doctorates, including Doctor of Engineering, honoris causa, from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1995; Honorary Doctorate of Engineering from the City University of Hong Kong in 1997; Doctor of Law, honoris causa, of the University of Melbourne, Australia; Honorary Doctor of Science, Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2003; Doctor of Science, honoris causa, of the University of Nottingham, UK in 2004; Honorary Doctor of Science, Loughborough University , UK ;Honorary Doctorate of Engineering Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 2005；Technological Doctor Honoris Causa of Linkoping TU, Sweden; Honorary Doctor of Engineering. of the University of Auckland, New Zealand in 2006. 

In his academic career, Professor Lu has made great contributions to the development of mechanical and control engineering, especially in the field of fluid power transmission and control and higher education of engineering. He has achieved about 25 patents in China, Europe and USA, and published at home and abroad over 250 papers 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 honours 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 was elected as Vice-Chairman of the China Association for Science and Technology from 1986 to 1996; Vice-President, International Association for Continuing Engineering Education from 1988 to 1992;Chairman of the Higher Education Consultative Committee of the State Education Commission from 1990 to 1994; President, the China Association for Continuing Engineering Education from 1990 to 1996; Chairman of China History of S&T Society from 1995 to 2004. He was Member of the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong SAR from 1996 to 2003; Member of the Chief Executive’s Commission on Innovation and Technology, Hong Kong SAR from 1998 to 1999, Special Advisor of the Advisory Commission on Innovation and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, from 2000; Vice President of TWAS from 1999-2006; 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.