Principal Investigator
Hung-Ju Yen
Assistant Research Fellow Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica Office: Rm. B809 Lab.: Rm. B812, B802b Contact: Office: 886-2-5572-8670 Lab.: 886-2-5572-8671, 886-2-5572-8562 Email: hjyen[at]gate.sinica.edu.tw |
Education
Jan. 2011
June 2007 June 2006 |
Ph.D. with 1st prize, Institute of Polymer Science and Engineering, National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, Taiwan
M.S. with Honors, Department of Applied Chemistry, National Chi Nan University (NCNU), Nantou, Taiwan B.S., Department of Applied Chemistry, National Chi Nan University, Nantou, Taiwan |
Professional Experience
Sep. 2017-present
May 2013-July 2017 July 2012-Aug. 2013 Feb.-Aug. 2011 July-Sep. 2009 |
Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
J. Robert Oppenheimer Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM Postdoctoral Researcher, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan Postdoctoral Researcher, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan Visiting Doctoral Researcher, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan |
Academic Awards/ Scholarships
- LCY Outstanding Young Professor Award, Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers (Dec. 2023)
- Outstanding Alumni Award, National Chi Nan University (June 2019)
- 2018-2019 Heritage Prize for "Excellence in Creativity", The Li Foundation (Sep. 2018).
- Newly-Employed Staff Academic Research Grants, Academia Sinica, 2017-2019.
- Fellowship to Recruit Outstanding Scholars, Ministry of Science and Technology (Taiwan), 2017-2020.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer (JRO) Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow, LANL (January, 2014)
(The most distinguished award given to young researchers at Los Alamos and is awarded yearly to a maximum of two recipients) - The 1st Place Prize, Song-Bor Wu Thesis award of Applied Chemistry (December, 2011)
(1st prize from all graduates of Department of Chemistry or Chemical engineering in Taiwan) - Post-Doctor Researchers Conference Travel Grant, Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship (June, 2011)
- The 2nd Place Prize, 2011 Lam Thesis Award (December, 2011)
(8 winners per year from over 1,400 Master and PhD graduates of College of Science and Engineering in NTU) - The Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society of The Republic of China (June, 2011)
(1st prize of PhD graduates in Institute of Polymer Science and Engineering, NTU) - National Taiwan University Outstanding Youth (November, 2010)
(15 winners per year from over 32,000 NTU students) - CTCI Technology Research Scholarship (December, 2010)
(15 winners per year from over 10,000 PhD candidates in Taiwan; 6 winners in NTU) - JTBPS ’10 Honorable Mention Presentation Award (July, 2010)
- The Scholarship of Eternal Chemical Co. (December, 2009)
(15 winners per year from over 15 departments in Taiwan; 2 winners from institute) - Summer Program; July-Sep., 2009 (Masa-aki Kakimoto Lab., Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
(18 winners per year from over 10,000 PhD candidates in Taiwan; 5 winners in NTU) - “Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics Award” RSC Publishing (June, 2007)
(3 winners this year on International Conference on Electrified Interfaces; 1 winner in Taiwan) - Research Creativity Award from the National Science Council in 2006 “Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Aromatic Polymers Bearing Pendent Sulfonic Acid Groups” [94-2815-C-260-004-E] (August, 2006)
(100 winners per year from over 800,000 undergraduates in Taiwan; 2 winners in NCNU)