Steven Chu

Steve Chu was formerly the United States Secretary of Energy from 2009 to 2013. Prior to his appointment as the Secretary of Energy, Dr. Chu was a professor of physics and molecular and cellular biology at the University of California Berkeley and the Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Dr. Chu received both a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from the University of Rochester in 1970. He then earned his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California Berkeley in 1976.