Tai Chang Chiang 江台章 Election Year 2016 Department of Physics, University of Illinois, 1110 West Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA Tel: (217) 333-2593
Current Positions
Professor Emeritus and Research Professor,
Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Education
B.S., Physics, National Taiwan University (1971)
Ph.D., Physics, University of California at Berkeley (1978)
Professional Experience
Postdoctoral Research Associate, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center (1978-80)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:
Assistant Professor (1980-84);Associate Professor
(1984-88); Professor (1988-2011);Professor Emeritus
and Research Professor (2011-present), Department of
Physics
Head, Solid State Sciences and Materials Chemistry
Program (1991-2006)
Associate Director, Frederick Seitz Materials Research
Laboratory(1999-2006)
Chair, Board of Governors (2003-08), UNICAT (University,
National Lab, and Industry Collaborative Access Team),
Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory
Scientific Director, Synchrotron Radiation Center,
University of Wisconsin-Madison (2010-14)
Distinguished Visiting Scholar, National Synchrotron
Radiation Research Center (2013-18)
Chair Professor, National Chiao-Tung University (2013-16)
Honorary Chair, National Tsing Hua University (2008-11), Jade Mountain Scholar (2020-25)
Distinguished Chair (2007-10;2015-present), National Taiwan University
Honorary Chair, National Sun Yat-sen university (2018-2020)
Visiting Professor, Tokyo University (2016)
Specialties
Condensed Matter Physics, Surface Science, Synchrotron Radiation Research
Awards and Honors
IBM Faculty Development Award, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center (1984 and 1985)
US Presidential Young Investigator Award (1984-89)
Xerox Faculty Award, University of Illinois (1985)
Fellow, American Physical Society (since 1986)
Outstanding referee, American Physical Society (2008, inaugural group)
Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics, American Physical Society (2015)
Arthur H. Compton Award, Argonne National Laboratory (2019)