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You-Hua Chu (朱有花, born in 1953 ), a Taiwanese astronomer, once served as the head of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , and is now a professor emeritus of the department. The main research areas are the interaction between the interstellar medium and stars and the observation of exoplanets.

Life
You-Hua Chu graduated from Taipei Municipal No. 1 Girls' High School in 1971 and from the Physics Department of National Taiwan University in 1975. In 1981, he obtained a Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of California, Berkeley. Since then, he has served as a professor and head of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. You-Hua Chu's husband is a professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. They had two daughters and a son.

In September 2014, You-Hua Chu took over as the director of the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica.

Honor
On June 16, 2021, the International Astronomical Union named asteroid 461981 You-Hua Chu  in recognition of her astronomical achievements.

External Link

 * You-Hua Chu crescent ( page archive backup, at Internet Archive ), people ( page archive backup , at Internet Archive ), Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois
 * Newton Magazine interviewed Professor You-Hua Chu, November 2003
 * Academia Sinica introduces You-Hua Chu ( page archive backup, stored in Internet Archives )