Education
- BS. June 1972. Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University. ROC.
- Ph.D. December 1979. Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, USA. (with S.F. Martin)
Experiences
- Food Scientist, Food Industrial Research and Development Institute, Hsinchu, Republic of China, 1979-1980.
- Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, 1980-1985.
- Research Fellow, Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei, since 1985.
- Director, Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 1987-1996.
- Project Manager, National Science Council, Republic of China, 1982-1986.
- Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, 1981-1986.
- Professor, Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei, since 1986.
- Invited Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France, March 1995. (with J.F. Biellmann)
- Visiting Scholar, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA, August-September, 1996. (with M.F. Semmelhack)
Activities
- Member of American Chemical Society, since 1975.
- Member of Chinese Chemical Society, since 1981.
- Member of International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry, since 1994.
- Member of International Council On Main Group Chemistry, since 1995.
- Executive Secretary of Chinese Chemical Society, 1986.
- Member of the Board of Supervisors of Chinese Chemical Society, 1988-1990.
- Director of Academic Affairs of Chinese Chemical Society, 1991-1992.
- Chief Editor of "Chemistry", Chinese Chemical Society, 1991-1992.
- Vice-president of the Chinese Chemical Society, 1992.
- President of the Chinese Chemical Society, 1993-1994.
- International Advisory Editor of "Ultrasonics, Sonochemistry", since 1994.
- Member of Editorial Board of "MOLECULES", since 1996.
- Chief-Editor of "Journal of the Chinese Chemical Society", since 1997.
Services
- Chairman,1988 International Symposium on Organic Reactions, December 21-23, 1988, Taipei.
- General Secretary, International Chemical Congress, Taipei: Synthetic Chemistry, April 14-17, 1991, Taipei.
- Chairman, 1991 International Symposium on Organic Reactions, August 19-21, 1991, Kyoto.
- Vice-chairman, International Symposium on Inorganic and Organic Chemistry, November 21-23, 1992, Taipei.
- Chairman, International Chemical Congress, Taipei: Analytical Chemistry, October 13-16, 1993, Kaohsiung.
- Chairman, 1994 International Symposium on Asymmetric Synthesis, April 8-9, 1994, Taichung.
- Chairman, 3rd International Symposium for Chinese Organic Chemists, November 10-13, 1994, Taipei.
- Chairman, 1995 Sino-French Symposium on Organic Chemistry, May 17-19, 1995, Taipei.
- Cochairman, 15th International Congress of Heterocyclic Chemistry, August 6-11, 1995, Taipei.
- Coordinator, Franco-Chinese Symposium on Organic and Organometallic Chemistry, December 18-20, 1996, Strasbourg, France.
Honors and Awards
- Outstanding Research Award, National Science Council, 1986-1994.
- Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Award in Creative Research, 1986.
- National Chung Hsing University Honorary Lectureship, 1993.
- Outstanding Scientist Award, Chinese Educational and Cultural Foundation, 1994.
- Specially Appointed Research Fellow Award, National Science Council, 1996.
- Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, since 1995.
- Honorary Professor, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, since 1997.