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<\/p>\nAcademia Sinica held its biennial Convocation of Academicians from July 2 to July 5 culminating in the announcement of the 2018 list of Academicians on July 5, 2018. This year, total of 21 new Academicians were elected.<\/p>\n
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List of Academicians is as follows:<\/p>\n
\nDivision of Mathematics and Physical Sciences <\/strong>(<\/strong>5)<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Chia-Ling Chien<\/strong><\/p>\n
Current position(s): Jacob K. Hain Professor of Physics, The Johns Hopkins University<\/p>\n
Specialties: Condensed Matter Physics, Nanostructures, Spintronics<\/p>\n
Pao-Kuan Wang<\/strong><\/p>\n
Current position(s): Distinguished Research Fellow and Director, Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica<\/p>\n
Specialties: Atmospheric Sciences<\/p>\n
Chien-Hong Cheng<\/strong><\/p>\n
Current position(s): National Chair Professor, Department of Chemistry, NTHU<\/p>\n
Specialties: Metal-catalyzed organic reactions; Organic optoelectronic materials<\/p>\n
Ting-kuo Lee<\/strong><\/p>\n
Current position(s): Distinguished Research Fellow and Acting Director of Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica<\/p>\n
Specialties: Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
\nAn-Pang Tsai<\/strong><\/p>\nCurrent position(s): Professor, Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku<\/p>\n
University<\/p>\n
Specialties: Fabrication of quasicrystals and designing new metallic catalysts in terms of metallurgy<\/p>\n
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\nDivision of Engineering Sciences<\/strong>(5)<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Kam W. Leong<\/strong><\/p>\n
Current position(s): Samuel Y. Sheng Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University; Professor, Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Medical Center<\/p>\n
Specialties: Biomaterials; Nanomedicine; Gene Editing; Tissue Engineering<\/p>\n
Teh Chung Ho<\/strong><\/p>\n
Current position(s): Emeritus Senior Research Associate, ExxonMobil Corporate Strategic Research Laboratories<\/p>\n
Specialties: Chemical Engineering, Catalytic Conversion of Hydrocarbons<\/p>\n
Shih-Fu Chang<\/strong><\/p>\n
Current position(s): Richard Dicker Chair Professor, Senior Executive Vice Dean, Columbia University<\/p>\n
Specialties: Multimedia Information Retrieval, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Signal Processing<\/p>\n
Chih-Yuan (C. Y.) Lu<\/strong><\/p>\n
Current position(s): CTO and President, Macronix International Co., Ltd; Chairman, Ardentec Corporation<\/p>\n
Specialties: Semiconductor Physics and Technology, Integrated Circuits Engineering, and Applied Physics<\/p>\n
Zhong Lin Wang<\/strong><\/p>\n
Current position(s): Regents\u2019 Professor, Hightower Chair, Georgia Institute of Technology; Director, Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences<\/p>\n
Specialties: Materials Science and Nanotechnology<\/p>\n
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\nDivision of Life Sciences (<\/strong>6)<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Pui-Yan Kwok<\/strong><\/p>\n
Current position(s): Distinguished Research Fellow and Director, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica \/ Henry Bachrach Distinguished Professor, UCSF<\/p>\n
Specialties: Genomic Medicine, Dermatology<\/p>\n
Yu-li Wang<\/strong><\/p>\n
Current position(s): Robert Mehrabian Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, USA<\/p>\n
Specialties: Cell Biology\u2014Cell Mechanics, Cytoskeleton, Cell Motility, Cell Division, Cell Imaging<\/p>\n
Ying-Hui Fu<\/strong><\/p>\n
Current position(s): Professor of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco<\/p>\n
Specialties: Human Genetics, Neuroscience<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/strong>Shyi-Dong Yeh<\/strong><\/p>\n
Current position(s): Chung Hsing Chair Professor<\/p>\n
Specialties: Plant Virology, Plant Genetic Engineering, Plant Pathology<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/strong>Lieping Chen<\/strong><\/p>\n
Current position(s): United Technologies Corporation Chair Professor in Cancer Research, Professor of Immunobiology, Dermatology and Medicine, Director, Cancer Immunology Program, Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center, Yale University School of Medicine.<\/p>\n
Specialties: Immunology, Oncology<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/strong>Bon-chu Chung<\/strong><\/p>\n
Current position(s): Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica<\/p>\n
Specialties: Steroid research, zebrafish model, molecular endocrinology, developmental biology<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nDivision of Humanities and Social Sciences (<\/strong>5)<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Weiming Tu<\/strong><\/p>\n
Current position(s): Chair Professor of Humanities, Director of the Institute for Humanistic Studies, Peking University<\/p>\n
Specialties: Chinese philosophy; Confucianism; religious studies; comparative philosophy; dialogue among civilizations<\/p>\n
Dorothy Ko<\/strong><\/p>\n
Current position(s): Professor and Chair, Department of History, Barnard College, Columbia University<\/p>\n
Specialties: History of Ming-Ch\u2019ing China, history of women and gender, history of science and technology, history of art<\/p>\n
Jackson T.-S. Sun<\/strong><\/p>\n
Current position(s): Research Fellow, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica<\/p>\n
Specialties: Linguistics<\/p>\n
Chun-fang Yu<\/strong><\/p>\n
Current position(s): Professor Emerita, Columbia University<\/p>\n
Specialties: Religious Studies, Chinese Buddhism<\/p>\n
Yu Yu Cheng<\/strong><\/p>\n
Current position(s): Chair Professor of Chinese literature at National Taiwan University; Joint Appointment Research Fellow at Academia Sinica<\/p>\n
Specialties: Chinese Poetics, Chinese Literary Criticism, Rhapsody Studies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Academia Sinica held its biennial Convocation of Academicians from July 2 to July 5 culminating in the announcement of the 2018 list of Academicians on July 5, 2018. This year, total of 21 new Academicians were elected.
\nList of Academicians is as follows:
\nDivision of Mathematics and Physical Sciences (5)
\nChia-Ling Chien<\/p>\nCurrent position(s): Jacob K. Hain Professor of Physics, The Johns Hopkins University<\/p>\n
Specialties: Condensed Matter Physics, Nanostructures, Spintronics<\/p>\n
Pao-Kuan Wang<\/p>\n
Current position(s): Distinguished Research Fellow and Director, Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica<\/p>\n
Specialties: Atmospheric Sciences<\/p>\n
Chien-Hong Cheng<\/p>\n
Current position(s): National Chair Professor, Department of Chemistry, NTHU<\/p>\n
Specialties: Metal-catalyzed organic reactions; Organic optoelectronic materials<\/p>\n
Ting-kuo Lee<\/p>\n
Current position(s): Distinguished Research Fellow and Acting Director of Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica<\/p>\n
Specialties: Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
\nAn-Pang Tsai<\/p>\nCurrent position(s): Professor, Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku<\/p>\n
University<\/p>\n
Specialties: Fabrication of quasicrystals and designing new metallic catalysts in terms of metallurgy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3961"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5087,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961\/revisions\/5087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}