院士簡歷

Division of Mathematics and Physical Sciences

Jen-Chieh Peng 彭仁傑
Election Year 2022
Department of Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1110 West Green Street
Urbana, IL 61801-3003, USA
Tel: (217)244-6039 / Fax: (217)333-1215

Current Positions

Professor of Physics, University of Illinois

Education

1970, B.S., Department of Physics, Tunghai University, Taiwan.
1975, Ph.D., Department of Physics, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Professional Experience

1975 ̶ 1977, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center of Nuclear Study, Saclay, France
1978 ̶ 2002, Staff Member, Physics Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
1982 ̶ 1983, Visiting Scientist at CERN (European Laboratory for Nuclear Physics), Switzerland
1995, Visiting Professor, Physics Department, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
1998, Visiting Professor, Physics Department, Peking University, China
2000, Visiting Professor, Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
2002 ̶ Present, Professor of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
2011 and 2015, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
2006 ̶ Present, Advisory Committee Member, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Specialties

Nuclear and Particle Physics, Antiquark Structure in Nucleons and Nuclei, Fundamental Symmetries, Neutrino Physics

Awards and Honors

Fellow, American Physical Society, 1993
Laboratory Fellow (Highest honor for LANL scientists, awarded to 2 percent of LANL scientists), LosAlamos National Laboratory (LANL), 1996
JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Fellow, 2000
Distinguished Performance Award, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2001
University of Illinois “Faculty Excellence” appointment, 2002 – Present
Co-recipient of the 2016 “Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physic” for observation of neutrinooscillation in the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment
Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics, American Physical Society (2022)