Prof. Maw-Kuen Wu is a distinguished research fellow at the Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica in Taiwan. He served as a member of the cabinet in charge of science and technology in Taiwan, from 2000 to 2002, as Deputy Minister, and from 2004 to 2006, as the Minister of the National Science Council. He was the Director of the Institute of Physics in Academia Sinica from 2006-2011, and in 2012-2016 was the President of the National Dong Hwa Univerity located at the east coast of Taiwan. He also served briefly as the Minister of Education of Taiwan in 2018.
Superconductor laboratory
Superconductivity, Li-ion battery, thermoelectric materials
Prof. Wu has received many major scientific awards including the US National Academy Comstock prize, the Bernd T. Matthias Prize, the Humboldt Research Award from Germany, the Nikkei Asia Prize of Japan, the Ettore Majorana-Erice-Science Prize of Italy, and the Presidential Science Prize of Taiwan. He is a member of the Academia Sinica, Taiwan, a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences as a Foreign Associate, and a member of the Academy of the Developing Countries.
Ph.D. physics, University of Houston, 1981