Date: 2018-04-25
To encourage postdoctoral fellows to publish innovative, high-quality and high-impact academic papers, and to fund the future elite scholars for their long-term research work, the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) has established the Best Research Paper Award for Postdoctoral Fellows (the Award). Twenty-one postdoctoral fellows from Academia Sinica have received the 2017 Award, and fifteen of them (*) are current or former postdoctoral fellows of the Postdoctoral Fellows Program at Academia Sinica. Forty awards are granted by MOST annually, and each awardee is to receive NT $100,000 and a medal from MOST.
The following is the list of awardees from Academia Sinica.
No.
| Awardee
| Affiliation
|
*1
| Ming-Chung Chang | Institute of Statistical Science |
2
| Wan-Yu Tsai | Institute of Mathematics |
3
| Ying-Tung Chen | Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics |
4
| Pai-Chun Wei | Institute of Physics |
*5
| Ya-Wen Tang | Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics |
*6
| Zi-Fu Wang | Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences |
*7
| Ruei-Yu He | Institute of Chemistry |
8
| Yun-Yuan Chang | Institute of Earth Sciences |
9
| Ching-Chou Fu | Institute of Earth Sciences |
*10
| Chao-An Chen | Research Center for Environmental Changes |
*11
| Ching-Yi Lai | Institute of Information Science |
*12
| Tseng-Yi Chen | Institute of Information Science |
*13
| Jen-Chun Lin | Institute of Information Science |
*14
| Chun-Kai Huang | Genomics Research Center |
15
| Chia-Jung Chang | Institute of Biomedical Sciences |
*16
| Yao-Pin Lin | Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center |
*17
| Wei-Ying Hsu | Institute of Sociology |
*18
| Ching-Mu Chen | Institute of Economics |
*19
| Chi-Ying Chang | Institute of History and Philology |
*20
| Yun-I Lai | Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences |
*21
| Pei-Jean Chen | Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy |