HomeDate: 2021-05-04
Awardees from Academia Sinica
To improve the level of Taiwan’s academic research and academic status in the international community, facilitate the benefits of social development and industrial application, highlight the diverse value of Taiwan’s research efforts, and boost the country’s technological capacity, the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) has established the Outstanding Research Award to reward the scientific and technological talents who devote themselves to basic or applied research. Up to eighty awards are granted by the MOST annually, and each awardee is to receive NT $900,000 and a certificate from MOST.
The list of the 2020 awardees from Academia Sinica is as follows:
| No. | Awardee | Affiliation |
| 1 | Teri Silvio | Institute of Ethnology |
| 2 | Volker Elling | Institute of Mathematics |
| 3 | Jun-Yi Leu | Institute of Molecular Biology |
| 4 | Chin-Fei Lee | Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics |
| 5 | Sheng-Feng Shen | Biodiversity Research Center |
| 6 | Li-Jung Juan | Genomics Research Center |
| 7 | Paul E. Verslues | Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology |
| 8 | Ping-yi Chu | Institute of History and Philology |
| 9 | Yuan-Hao Chang | Institute of Information Science |
| 10 | Ya-Ju Hsu | Institute of Earth Sciences |
| 11 | Le-Yu Chen | Institute of Economics |
| 12 | Jung-Chi Liao | Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences |
| 13 | Steve R. Roffler | Institute of Biomedical Sciences |
| 14 | Kai-Min Chung | Institute of Information Science |
*The list is in accordance with the list provided by MOST.
