Postdoc., California Institute of Technology, Calif. (1976-79)
University of Iowa: Assistant Professor (1979) of Biology; Associate Professor (1983); Professor (1989-present); Faculty of Interdisciplinary Programs (Genetics, 1983-present ; Neuroscience, 1984-present; Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, 1999-present); Interim Director (2000), Assoc. Director (1997) of Neuroscience Program
Visiting Professor:
Department of Pharmacology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine (1987)
Department of Physics, University of Tokyo (1988)
Department of Genetics, University of Wuerzburg (1995)
National Defense Medical Center, Taiwan (2002)
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT (2009)
Cornelius Wiersma Visiting Professor of Neurobiology, California Institute of Technology (2002)
Visiting Chair Professor, National Central University, and Brain Research Center, University System of Taiwan (Tsing Hua University, Central University, Chao-Tung University, Yang-Ming University) (2004-06)
Visiting Investigator, Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica (2009)
Editorial Board, Neural Plasticity (2009-present); Asia Pacific Journal of Pharmacology (1987-95)
Editor-in-Chief (2007- present), Associate Editor (1988-2006), Journal of Neurogenetics
Lecturer, Instructor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, summer course "Neurobiology of Drosophila" (1973-74, 1987, 1991, 1993-95)
Specialties
Neurophysiology, Neurogenetics, Neuroscience
Awards and Honors
Spencer Research Fellowship, California Institute of Technology (1976-78)
Searle Scholar, Searle Scholars Program/Chicago Community Trust (1981-84)
Research Career Development Award, National Institutes of Health (1982-87)
JSPS Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (1988)
DAAD Study-Visit Award, German Academic Exchange Service (1995)
K.-C. Wang Award, Chinese Academy of Science (2002)
Wiersma Scholar, California Institute of Technology (2002)
AAAS Fellow, American Association for Advancement of Science (2005)
Distinguished Alumnus, Tunghai University (2010)
Distinguished Science Alumnus Award, Purdue University (2011)