The U.S. Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu, will head back to Stanford University to join the faculty after he demits his office this year.
Reports of Chu joining Stanford University surfaced following his decision to quit the state office. Earlier this month, he announced his decision not to serve the second term in his present capacity
Chu will teach physics at the university upon his return. He expressed his excitement over going back to the teaching profession. He was teaching physics and applied physics between 1987 and 2008 at the university before he became the 12th Energy Secretary in 2009 under the Obama Administration.
"The highest point in my career was when I became a professor in [such] a great institution," Chu told Stanford Daily. "I want to return to... the marriage of physics, biology and biomedicine," Chu said. "That is a very exciting frontier."
Chu received his Nobel Prize for Physics in 1997 and has been bestowed with numerous other awards." On returning to his previous job, he will work jointly for the physics department and the medical school's Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, according to reports.
Chu's has only confirmed his decision to quit the Energy Secretary post. However, no official date has been announced on his last working day at the office.
Chou's heir has also not been announced yet. But the buzz is that President Obama is likely to name physicist Ernest Moniz of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as the 13th Energy Secretary.
