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
