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H.E. Professor Maw - Kuen Wu

H.E. Professor Maw - Kuen Wu

Professor Maw Kuen is a solid state experimentalist specialized in magnetism and superconductivity. Currently he also serves as the Director General of the National Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Program of Taiwan. He received his bachelor and master degrees in physics from Tamkang University in Taiwan, and completed his Ph.D., also in Physics, at the University of Huston.

He has been a professor of physics at several institutions in Taiwan and in the U.S.; including University of Alabama (in Huntsville), Columbia University (New York City) and National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan). He has also served as a member of the Cabinet in Taiwan, once as deputy minister (May 2000-Feb. 2002), and then minister (May 2004-Jan 2006) of the National Science Council, which is the ministry in charge of science and technology development of Taiwan.

Because of his discovery of the first superconductor with superconducting temperature higher than the boiling temperature of liquid nitrogen, he has been awarded many honours including a special award from NASA(1988), Bern Matthias Prize(1994) and Erice Prize (2008). He was elected to the membership of Academia Sinica (Taiwan) in 1998, the foreign associate of the US National Academy of Science in 2004, and the Third World Academy of Science also in 2004.