USA’s forthcoming Secretary of Energy to attend climate conference at Aarhus University
Nobel Prize winner Steven Chu is to be Barack Obama’s man in the US Department of Energy. Next March, he is coming to Aarhus University along with Gro Harlem Brundtland as a key speaker at the Beyond Kyoto climate conference.
When the major Beyond Kyoto climate conference takes off at Aarhus University on 5–7 March 2009, one of the absolute key speakers is Steven Chu, physicist and Nobel Prize winner, and the forthcoming US Secretary of Energy. This provides Aarhus University’s climate conference with even more prestige as a warm-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in November 2009.
Steven Chu is a physicist with insight into molecular biology and laser atoms. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1997 for his research. He was formerly Chair of the Department of Physics at Stanford University and has close ties to Aarhus University, where he has previously given lectures.
Chu (60) has always been a hard-working proponent of scientific solutions for global climate problems. In addition to helping to ensure his current workplace – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory – of a leading position in cancer research, he was the instigator of the centre’s mission to be a global leader in research into alternative and CO 2 neutral energy. He was also the driving force behind Helios – a forthcoming centre for energy science, expected to be built by 2010.
An examination of Chu’s impressive CV and scientific achievements leaves readers in no doubt that the forthcoming US Secretary of Energy is academically competent and the perfect choice for Beyond Kyoto – the conference at Aarhus University. The focus here is precisely on how science, the business community and the public sector can join together to solve the world’s climate problems.
More information
Contact person, Professor Ellen Margrethe Basse, dr.jur.
Head of the Climate Secretariat, Aarhus University
Tel: +45 8942 1970, mobile: +45 2326 1829, web: www.klima.au.dk
17 December 2008
Journalist Henrik Skov
hsk@adm.au.dk
tel: +45 2074 3459