Max Lu AO, FAA, FTSE, FIChemE, FRSC |
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逯高清 | |
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Surrey | |
Assumed office April 2016 |
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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. Previously he was Provost and Senior Vice-President at the University of Queensland where, in 2013, he was named one of the country's Top 100 Most Influential Engineers, received a Queensland Greats Award in 2013, and won the inaugural Australia-China Achievement Award (Education) in 2014.
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.
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.