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院士簡歷


Division of Engineering Sciences


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Chain T. Liu 劉錦川
Election Year 2014
Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study
City University of Hong Kong
Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Tel: (852) 3442-7213 / Fax: (852) 3442-0825
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Current Positions
  • Senior Fellow, Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study
Education
  • B.S., Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University (1960)
  • M.S. (1964); Ph.D. (1967), Materials Science and Engineering, Brown University
Professional Experience
  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL):
  • Research Staff and Senior Research Staff (1967-83); Group Leader (1983-2003); Corporate Fellow and Senior Corporate Fellow (1985-2005)
  • Professor and Distinguished Research Professor, University of Tennessee (2005-08)
  • Distinguished Professor, Auburn University (2009-10)
  • Chair Professor under the World Class Scholar Program, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2009-11)
  • University Distinguished Professor, City University of Hong Kong (2011-2023)
  • Distinguished Chair Professor, National Taiwan University (2011-2025)
Specialties
  • Materials Science and Engineering
Awards and Honors
  • The first recipient of the Henry J. Albert Award for outstanding theoretical or experimental contributions to the metallurgy of precious metals, by the International Precious Metals Institute (IPMI) (1980)
  • Three technical Society Fellows: Honorary Platinum Membership of International Precious Metals Institute (1982); ASM Fellow (1984); TMS Fellow (limited to 100 living members) (1994)
  • Distinguished Alumni Award, Brown University (1985)
  • E. O. Lawrence Memorial Award given by US Department of Energy (DOE) on the behalf of the President of USA (1988)
  • Fifth in Worldwide Ranking of Highly Cited Authors in materials sciences and metallurgy during 1990-1994, identified by Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) (1995)
  • Received the Institute 1996 Best Paper Award in the category of Mechanical Behavior and Mechanical Characterization of Materials from Japan Institute of Metals (JIM) (1996)
  • Brown Engineering Alumni Medal Award, Brown University (1998)
  • The 2001 Acta Metallurgica Gold Medal Award (2001)
  • Elected as a Fellow of the World Technology Network (2003)
  • Identified as a World Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science by ISI (2003)
  • Member of National Academy of Engineering (NAE), USA (2004)
  • Director’s Award for Outstanding Scientific Accomplishment , ORNL, USA (2004)
  • Foreign Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) (2005)
  • Research on structural amorphous steels was selected as a Top Physics Story by APS (2005)
  • Chairman of the Editors Board of International Journal – Intermetallics (since 2006)
  • Honorary Member of Japan Institute for Metals (2007)
  • National Award for International Scientific and Technology Cooperation sponsored by National Office for Science and Technology Awards, China (2008)
  • Four US I•R 100 Industrial Competition Awards, USA (1979, 1983, 1990, 2009)