Obama’s former energy department director has been appointed to help lead the world’s largest general scientific society
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.