Professor Frank H. Shu is presently the President and Professor of Physics at the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan and regarded as one of the world's leading authorities in theoretical astrophysics and star formation.

Professor Shu is known for pioneering theoretical work in a diverse set of fields, including the origin of meteorites, the birth and early evolution of stars, the process of mass transfer in close binary stars, and the structure of spiral galaxies.

Educated at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Professor Shu held faculty appointments at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and University of California at Berkeley before becoming President of the National Tsing Hua University in 2002. From 1994 to 1996 he served as the President of the American Astronomical Society, and is a current member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. He has received a number of honours and awards, i.e., Warner Prize (1977), Oort Professor of Leiden University (1996), Brouwer Award (1996), and Heineman Prize (2000).