HomeDate: 2026-03-05
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 National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) has established the Outstanding Research Award (the Award) to reward the scientific and technological talents who devote themselves to basic or applied research. Eighty awards are granted by the NSTC annually in principle, and each awardee is to receive NT $1,500,000 and a certificate from NSTC.
The list of the 2025 awardees from Academia Sinica is as follows:
No. | Awardee | Affiliation |
1 | Yung-Ling Lee | Institute of Biomedical Sciences |
2 | Yuan-Hann Chang | Institute of Physics |
3 | Ming-Chung Chang | Institute of Statistical Science |
4 | Umetsu, Keiichi | Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics |
5 | Sheng-Hong Chen | Institute of Molecular Biology |
6 | Hwai-I Yang | Genomics Research Center |
7 | Chun-Hsien Yeh | Institute of Economics |
8 | Wen-Hsuan Tsai | Institute of Political Science |
9 | Deschamps, Frédéric | Institute of Earth Science |
*The list is in accordance with the list provided by NSTC.
