Lou-Chuang Lee 李羅權 Election Year 2002 Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica
128, Sec. 2, Academia Rd., Taipei 11529, Taiwan Tel: (02) 2783-9910#1305
Current Positions
Distinguished Visiting Chair, Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica
Education
B.S., National Taiwan University (1969)
M. S. and Ph. D., Physics, California Institute of Technology (1972)(1975)
Professional Experience
Research Associate, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (1975-1977)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Institute for Physics Science and Technology, University of Maryland, U.S.A. (1977-1978)
Professor, Geophysical Institute and Dept. of Physics, University of Alaska, U.S.A. (1978-1995)
Dean, College of Science, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan (1995-2001)
Chief Scientist, National Space Program Office, Taiwan (1997-2001)
Director, National Space Program Office, Taiwan (2001-2004)
President, National Applied Research Laboratories, Taiwan (2003-2006)
President, National Central University (2006-2008)
Minister, National Science Council (2008-2012)
Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica(2012-2017)
Director, Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica(2014-2017)
Specialties
Physics, Geophysics
Awards and Honors
Japan Toray Science Foundation Fellow (1986)
Terris Moore Award in Space Physics (1987)
Fulbright Distinguished Scholar (1988)
Emil Usibelli Distinguished Research Award, University of Alaska (1994)
Award for Outstanding Principal Investigators, Taiwan (1996-2001)
Academic Award in Science, Ministry of Education, Taiwan (2001)
Academician, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (2002)
World Technology Network (London) Fellow (2003)
Presidential Science Prize, Taiwan (2005)
Elected Member, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)(2006)
Elected Member, International Academy of Astronautics (2007)
Elected Member, International Academy of Engineering (IAE)/Russian Academy of Engineering (2011)
S. Chandrasekhar Prize of Plasma Physics (2017)
The Prize of 19th Chinese Society for Management of Technology (CSMOT) (2017)
Foreign Member, U.S. National Academy of Engineering (2018)