Academia Sinica held its biennial Convocation of Academicians from July 5 to July 8 culminating in the announcement of the 2010 list of Academicians on July 8, 2010. This year, total of 18 new Academicians and 5 Honorary Academicians were elected.
List of Academicians is as follows:
Division of Mathematics and Physical Sciences (9)
Wing H. Wong
Current position(s):
Professor, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
Specialties: Statistical theory and methodology, computational biology
Teresa H. Meng
Current position(s):
Reid Weaver Dennis Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
Specialties: Wireless communications and digital signal processing
Inez Yau-Sheung Fung
Current position(s):
Professor, Department of Earth & Planetary Science, and Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management; University of California, Berkeley
Director, Berkeley Institute of the Environment
Specialties: Atmospheric science, climate change, global carbon cycle
Yu Wang
Current position(s):
Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University
Specialties: Chemistry
Y. Austin Chang
Current position(s):
Wisconsin Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Specialties: Physical sciences – Materials science
Shih-Chang Lee
Current position(s):
Research Fellow, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica
Specialties: Particle physics
Yuk Ling Yung
Current position(s):
Professor of Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology
Specialties: Atmospheric chemistry and global change
Shih-Lin Chang
Current position(s):
Tsing Hua Distinguished Chair Professor, Vice President (Academic Affairs), National Tsing Hua University
Specialties: Condense matter physics and crystallography
Ching-Li Chai
Current position(s):
Professor of Mathematics, Francis J. Carey Term Chair, Department of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania
Specialties: Mathematics (Arithmetic algebraic geometry)
Division of Life Sciences (5)
Roger Yonchien Tsien
Current position(s):
Professor, Departments of Pharmacology and Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Specialties: Cell biology, molecular biology, physiology, biochemistry
Jerry Hsueh-Ching Wang
Current position(s):
Professor Emeritus, Department of Biochemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Specialties: Cell signaling, cell regulation, enzymology, protein kinases and protein phosphatases, and cell calcium
Ming-Jer Tsai
Current position(s):
C.C. Bell Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine
Specialties: Molecular endocrinology and developmental biology
Lu-Hai Wang
Current position(s):
Distinguished Investigator and Director, Division of Molecular and Genomic Medicine, National Health Research Institute
Specialties: Oncogenes, cell transformation and signal transduction
Chung-Hsuan Chen
Current position(s):
Distinguished Research Fellow and Director, Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica
Specialties: Physical biotechnology
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences (4)
I-tien Hsing
Current position(s):
Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
Specialties: History
Dah-an Ho
Current position(s):
Research Fellow Emeritus of the Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica
Specialties: Historical linguistics
Shu-min Huang
Current position(s):
Distinguished Research Fellow and Director, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica
Specialties: Socio-cultural anthropology, sustainable agriculture, rural health and disease
Ki Che Angela Leung
Current position(s):
Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
Professor of History, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Specialties: History
Related website: http://www.sinica.edu.tw/academician/2010.doc
List of Honorary Academicians is as follows:
Division of Mathematics and Physical Sciences (4)
Rudolph A. Marcus
Current position(s):
Arthur Amos Noyes Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology
Specialties: Theories of rates of chemical reactions in gases and in solutions, electron and other transfer reactions, unimolecular reactions and bimolecular association reactions
Jean-Pierre Serre
Current position(s):
Honorary Professor of Collège de France
Specialties: Algebraic topology, algebraic geometry and number theory
Ralph J. Cicerone
Current position(s):
President, National Academy of Sciences of the United States
Specialties: Atmospheric chemistry and global climate change
Ryoji Noyori
Current position(s):
President of RIKEN and University Professor of Nagoya University
Specialties: Organic synthesis chemistry
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences (1)
James J. Heckman
Current position(s):
Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago
Specialties: Social sciences
Related website: http://www.sinica.edu.tw/honorary_academician/2010.doc
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