院士簡歷

Division of Engineering Sciences

Chain T. Liu
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
院士email

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)