PREVIOUS AWARDS

Education:

• B.S. Chemistry, National Taiwan University (1970)
• Ph. D., Chemistry, University of Chicago (1975)

Professional Experience:

• Research Associate (1975-76), Northwestern University
• Associate Professor (1976-80); Professor (1980－); Chairman (1987-90), Dept. of Chemistry, National Taiwan University
• Humboldt Research Fellow of Germany (1983-84)
• Research Fellow (1982－); Acting Director (1985-87), Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica
• Visiting Faculty, Institute for Molecular Science, Japan (1991)
• Vice President, National Taiwan University (1999-2002)
• President, Chemical Society located in Taipei (2001-2002)

Specialties:

• Chemistry
• Crystallography

Awards and Honors:

• Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (1983)
• Sun Yat-Sen Academic Research Award (1991)
• Academic Achievement Award of the Chinese Chemical Society in Taipei (1992)
• The Ho Chin Tui Award (1996)
• Scholar Award in Science, Ministry of Education (1996)
• National Chair Professor, Ministry of Education (1997)
• Outstanding Research Award and Award for Outstanding Principal Investigators, National Science Council, Taiwan Academician, Academia Sinica, R.O.C. (1998)
• TWAS Award in Chemistry (2002) and Member of TWAS (2003)
• French-Taiwan Sciences Prize (2008)
• Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry, London, UK (2009)
• International Award, Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry (2011)
• Foundation Lectureship Award, FACS (2011)
• Presidential Science Prize, Taiwan (2013)

Current Positions:

• Vice President, Academia Sinica
• Chair Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, National Taiwan University