Nobelist Steven Chu is AAAS’s new president-elect

Nobel prize winning physicist Steven Chu, who led the US Department of Energy (DOE) under former President Obama, has been named as the next president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Currently a physics professor at Stanford University, Chu will begin his three-year term as an officer and member of the AAAS board of directors’ executive committee at the international non-profit organisation’s annual meeting in Austin, Texas, next month.