Leroy Chiao (焦立中)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Leroy Chiao
  • Chinese: 焦立中
  • Era: 1960
  • Geography: Milwaukee/WI
  • Core roles: engineer, scientist
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Employment

  1. National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) present chairman

Education

  • Berkerly — 1983 — B.S. chemical engineering
  • University of California, Santa Barbara — 1985 — M.S. chemical engineering
  • University of California, Santa Barbara — 1987 — Ph.D. chemical engineering

Employment

  • National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) — present — chairman
  • Astronaut Office EVA Branch — Chief
  • NASA — 1991 — NASA
  • Hexcel Corporation — 1987-1989

Family

No filled family fields on the TAH profile.

Role in the Community

  • Featured in the TAH Foundation Who’s Who encyclopedia record 11 (published 2016-11-06).
  • Corpus check 2026-09-18: no community/movement activity beyond this bibliographic record in works+articles; no additional facts absorbable, no conflicts. Corpus re-scan 2026-09-22 (slice 11), 2026-09-25 (slice 17), 2026-09-26 (slice 14), and 2026-10-09 (slice 10070714-3): no new material — SKIP. Surname hits under 焦 (Yung Chiao Wei, Ming Chiao Lai) and ‘Leroy’ (Marcy Leroy Ditmanson) are different people.

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