University Rectors
The University of Macau grew from the core of the city's higher education into an internationally minded research university — the work of successive rectors. Xu Ao'ao
許敖敖 · Xu Ao'aoThe 2nd President of the Macau University of Science and Technology (2002–2012), Xu Ao'ao is an astronomer and higher-education leader. Born in 1940 in Changzhou, Jiangsu, he graduated from the astronomy department of Nanjing University in 1962 and stayed on to teach, working for decades in solar physics, space physics, and plasma physics; he later became a professor and doctoral supervisor in astronomy and served as provost and vice-president of Nanjing University. In 2002 he became President of MUST, succeeding founding president Chow Lai-ko, and over the next decade helped grow the comprehensive university — founded in 2000 — in disciplinary strength and scale, stepping down in 2012 and later serving as adviser to the MUST chancellor. He was a member of the 9th and 10th National CPPCC.Read profile →, an astronomer, served as rector of the University of Macau, advancing its administration and disciplines; , a computer scientist, led the university's move to its new Hengqin campus and expanded its research during his term; and , an electrical-engineering scholar, has continued to lift its international standing and research strength since taking the helm.
