HomeDate: 2025-05-23
The 12th Academia Sinica President’s term of office will expire on June 20, 2026. In accordance with the Regulations for Academia Sinica Presidential Searches, a Presidential Search Committee shall be established one year prior to when the President’s term concludes.
With reference to Article 3 and Article 4 of the Regulations for Presidential Searches for Academia Sinica . The Presidential Search Committee shall consist of 15 members, with three members elected from each of the four Divisions—Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Engineering Sciences, Life Sciences, and Humanities and Social Sciences—by Council Members, and three members elected by Academia Sinica research staff and research specialists. Among the members elected by the Academia Sinica research staff and research specialists, one member shall be elected from each of the three Divisions—Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, and Humanities and Social Sciences. (This is a temporary translation. The official English version of the Regulations will be updated soon.)
Voting information for the Election of Research Staff and Research Specialist Representatives to the 13th Academia Sinica Presidential Search Committee will be provided separately. Eligible voters are kindly requested to cast their votes actively within the designated voting period. The candidates nominated by each Institute and Research Center based on eligible nominees are as follows:
Division of Mathematics and Physical Sciences | Division of Life Sciences | Division of Humanities and Social Sciences | |||
Research Unit | Name | Research Unit | Name | Research Unit | Name |
| Institute of Mathematics | Shih-Hsien Yu | Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology | Shih-Long Tu | Institute of History and Philology | Jen-Der Lee |
| Institute of Physics | Keng-Hui Lin | Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology | Yi-Hsien Su | Institute of Ethnology | Hsun Chang |
| Institute of Chemistry | Yu-Ju Che | Institute of Biological Chemistry | Meng-Chiao Ho | Institute of European and American Studies | Cheng-Hung Tsai |
| Institute of Earth Sciences | Wen-Pin Hsieh | Institute of Biomedical Sciences | Chih-Cheng Chen | Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy | Siao-Chen Hu |
| Institute of Information Science | Tsan-Sheng Hsu | Institute of Molecular Biology | Hwai-Jong Cheng | Institute of Sociology | Chih-Ming KA |
| Institute of Statistical Science | Hsin-Cheng Huang | Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center | Tzyy-Jen Chiou | Institute of Linguistics | Jackson T.-S. SUN |
| Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences | Yuh-Lin Wang | Genomics Research Center | Kuo-I Lin | Institute of Political Science | Yu-Shan Wu |
| Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics | Ming-Jye Wang | Biodiversity Research Center | John Wang | Institutum Iurisprudentiae | Yen-Tu Su |
| Research Center for Applied Sciences | Pei-Lin Chen | Biomedical Translation Research Center | Jung-Hsin Lin | Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences | Carl K.Y. Shaw |
| Research Center for Environmental Changes | Huang-Hsiung Hsu | ||||
| Research Center for Information Technology Innovation | Yu Tsao | ||||
| Research Center for Critical Issues | Chii-Dong Chen | ||||
Note: The following institutes did not nominate candidates: Institute of Modern History, Institute of Economics, Institute of Taiwan History.
