Education

  1. BS. June 1972. Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University. ROC.
  2. Ph.D. December 1979. Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, USA. (with S.F. Martin)

Experiences

  1. Food Scientist, Food Industrial Research and Development Institute, Hsinchu, Republic of China, 1979-1980.
  2. Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, 1980-1985.
  3. Research Fellow, Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei, since 1985.
  4. Director, Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 1987-1996.
  5. Project Manager, National Science Council, Republic of China, 1982-1986.
  6. Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, 1981-1986.
  7. Professor, Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei, since 1986.
  8. Invited Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France, March 1995. (with J.F. Biellmann)
  9. Visiting Scholar, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA, August-September, 1996. (with M.F. Semmelhack)

Activities

  1. Member of American Chemical Society, since 1975.
  2. Member of Chinese Chemical Society, since 1981.
  3. Member of International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry, since 1994.
  4. Member of International Council On Main Group Chemistry, since 1995.
  5. Executive Secretary of Chinese Chemical Society, 1986.
  6. Member of the Board of Supervisors of Chinese Chemical Society, 1988-1990.
  7. Director of Academic Affairs of Chinese Chemical Society, 1991-1992.
  8. Chief Editor of "Chemistry", Chinese Chemical Society, 1991-1992.
  9. Vice-president of the Chinese Chemical Society, 1992.
  10. President of the Chinese Chemical Society, 1993-1994.
  11. International Advisory Editor of "Ultrasonics, Sonochemistry", since 1994.
  12. Member of Editorial Board of "MOLECULES", since 1996.
  13. Chief-Editor of "Journal of the Chinese Chemical Society", since 1997.

Services

  1. Chairman,1988 International Symposium on Organic Reactions, December 21-23, 1988, Taipei.
  2. General Secretary, International Chemical Congress, Taipei: Synthetic Chemistry, April 14-17, 1991, Taipei.
  3. Chairman, 1991 International Symposium on Organic Reactions, August 19-21, 1991, Kyoto.
  4. Vice-chairman, International Symposium on Inorganic and Organic Chemistry, November 21-23, 1992, Taipei.
  5. Chairman, International Chemical Congress, Taipei: Analytical Chemistry, October 13-16, 1993, Kaohsiung.
  6. Chairman, 1994 International Symposium on Asymmetric Synthesis, April 8-9, 1994, Taichung.
  7. Chairman, 3rd International Symposium for Chinese Organic Chemists, November 10-13, 1994, Taipei.
  8. Chairman, 1995 Sino-French Symposium on Organic Chemistry, May 17-19, 1995, Taipei.
  9. Cochairman, 15th International Congress of Heterocyclic Chemistry, August 6-11, 1995, Taipei.
  10. Coordinator, Franco-Chinese Symposium on Organic and Organometallic Chemistry, December 18-20, 1996, Strasbourg, France.

Honors and Awards

  1. Outstanding Research Award, National Science Council, 1986-1994.
  2. Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Award in Creative Research, 1986.
  3. National Chung Hsing University Honorary Lectureship, 1993.
  4. Outstanding Scientist Award, Chinese Educational and Cultural Foundation, 1994.
  5. Specially Appointed Research Fellow Award, National Science Council, 1996.
  6. Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, since 1995.
  7. Honorary Professor, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, since 1997.