Education

B.S., National Taiwan University, 1974, Directed by Professor Yu-Shia Cheng.

Ph.D., Yale University, 1980, Directed by Professor Frederick E. Ziegler.

Postdoctoral, Columbia University / Suntory Institute for Bioorganic Research (Osaka), 1981-82, Directed by Professor Koji Nakanishi.

Career

*Associate Professor (1982-86),
Professor (1986-2006), and Distinguished
Professor (2006-present), Department of
Chemistry, National Taiwan University

*Chairman, Department of Chemistry,
National Taiwan University, 1993 - 96.

*Director, National Taiwan University
Instrumentation Center (Analysis and
Measurement Division), 1998 - 2001.

*Coordinator and member of Advisory
Board in the Division of Natural
Sciences, National Science Council:
projects planning, review and budget
control: 1997 - 99. Member of Chemical
Research Promotion Center: 1999–2001.　　

*Consultant of Ministry of Education,
2005－2007

*Member of Scientific Advisory Board: Institute of Chemistry (2007–present) and Incubation Center (2008–present), Academia Sinica.

*Visiting Scholar:
@University of Louis Pasteur,
Strasbourg, France, 1988.
@The Scripps Research Institute, La
Jolla, U.S.A., 1993.
@University of Oxford, U.K., 1996.
@Chuo University (Invited Lectureship
Professor), Tokyo, Japan, 2002.
@Kyushu University (Invited Lectureship
Professor), Fukuoka, Japan, 2005.

*Executive Editor: J. Chin. Chem. Soc.,
1988–1995 & 2000–2006.　　

*Member in the Council of the Chemical
Society in Taipei: 2005–present.

*Member in the Board of Consulting

 

Teaching

Teach courses of General chemistry, Organic chemistry, Organic synthesis, Biochemistry, and Chemical biology.

Coordinator of teaching affairs.

Revision of students' laboratory tutorials.

International referee of Chemistry Olympia.