Yuan-Pern Lee 李遠鵬 Election Year 2008 Dept. of Applied Chemistry
National Chiao Tung University
Science Building 2, Rm. 330
1001, Ta Hsueh Rd., Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan Tel: (03) 513-1459 / Fax: (03) 571-3491
Current Positions
Contract-based Professor, Dept. of Applied Chemistry, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (2022.02-)
Education
B.S., Chemistry, National Taiwan University (1969.08-73.06)
Ph.D., Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley (1975.09-79.08)
Professional Experience
Dean of Science, National Chiao Tung University (2005.08-2008.07)
Director of Institute of Molecular Science, National Chiao Tung University (2004.08-2007.07)
Professor, Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University (1985.08-2004.07)
Chair Professor, Dept. of Applied Chemistry, National (Yang-Ming) Chiao Tung University (2004.08-2022.01)
Adjunct Research Fellow, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica (1988.04-2022.01)
Director, NSC Regional Instrument Center at NTHU (1991-2003)
Endowed Chair on Advanced Energy Engineering (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.), University of Tokyo (1997.01-03)
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University (1981.08-1985.07)
Research Associate, Aeronomy Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-Environmental Research Laboratories (1979.09-1981.08)
JSPS Research Fellow, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (2009.7-2009.9)
Specialties
Physical Chemistry, Free Radical Spectroscopy, Laser Chemistry, Kinetics, and Dynamics
Awards and Honors
Presidential Science Prize, ROC, 2019
Masuhara Lectureship Award of the Asian and Oceanian Photochemistry Association, 2018.
Pimentel Prize for Matrix Isolation, 2018.
Humboldt Research Award, Humboldt Foundation, Germany, 2016.
Honda-Fujishima Lectureship Award of Japanese Photochemistry Association, 2016.
18th Chao-Ting Chang Lectures of Chao-Ting Chang Memorial Foundation, 2016.
Elected Member, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), 2011.
16th Academic Achievement Award, The Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society of the Republic of China, 2011.
National Chair Professor (Ministry of Education, Taiwan), 1997-2000, 2000-2003, permanent term afterwards.
Fellow (American Physical Society), 1999.
Citation: "For developing and applying novel spectroscopic techniques for characterizing radical species, particular their kinetics and unstable structure"
Research Achievement Medal (The Chinese Chemical Society), 1996.
Outstanding Scholarship (Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship, Taiwan), 1995-2000, 2003-2008.
Award for Outstanding Principal Investigators (National Science Council, Taiwan), 1995-1998, 1998-2001.
Outstanding Research Award (National Science Council, Taiwan), 1989-1995.
16th Wu Shan-Liang Award, 1993.
Academic Achievement Award in Science (Ministry of Education, Taiwan), 1990.
Chung-Shan Academic Research Award, 1988.
Outstanding Teaching Award (National Tsing Hua University), 1986 & 2000.
Serve in many major international symposiums: International Symposium on Free Radicals, 2003-; Matrix Isolation Symposium, 2003-2011; Asian Photochemistry Association, 2005-2007; Asian Spectroscopy Conference, 2007-2011; OSU International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy, 1995-1998, 2008-2011) and the Advisory board of KAIST
Serve in many editorial boards of journals: E-Journal of Chemistry, 2012-; Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy, 2012/8/1-2015/7/31; Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews, 2014/1/1-); Scientific Advisory Group of UV/Vis+ Spectra Data Base (2011−).