Sunney I. Chan Election Year 1988 Noyes Laboratory 127-72, California Institute of Technology
1200 East California Blvd., Pasadena
CA 91125, USA Tel: 1-626-395-6508 / Fax: 1-626-395-2696
Current Positions
George Grant Hoag Professor of Biophysical Chemistry, Emeritus, California Institute of Technology
Education
B.S., University of California, Berkeley (Chemical Engineering)(1957)
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (Chemistry)(1960)
Assistant Professor (Chemistry), University of California, Riverside (1961-1963)
Assistant Professor (Chemistry), California Institute of Technology, (1963-1964); Associate Professor (Chemical Physics) (1964-1968); Professor (Chemical Physics & Biophysical Chemistry) (1968-1992); George Grant Hoag Professor (Biophysical Chemistry) (1992-2001); George Grant Hoag Professor, Emeritus (2002- )
Director and Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica (1997-1999), Vice President and Distinguished Research Fellow (1999-2003), Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Chemistry (2003-2006), Acting Director, Institute of Chemistry (2004-2005), Distinguished Chair Research Fellow (2006-2011), Distinguished Visiting Fellow (2011-2020)
Distinguished Research Chair Professor, National Taiwan University (2007-2019)
Honorary Chair Professor, National Ping-Tung University of Education (2011-2014)
Chair Professor of Bioinorganic Chemistry, National Chung Hsing University (2013-2020)
Honorary Chair Professor, Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (2016-2019)
Specialties
Biochemistry and Biophysics
Awards and Honors
Fellow, American Society for the Advancement of Science
Fellow, American Physical Society
Bioenergetics Award (1984), Biophysical Society
Academician, Academia Sinica, R.O.C. (1988)
NIH MERIT Award, National Institutes of Health (1990)
Fellow, Biophysical Society (2004)
Louis Pasteur Medal, Louis Pasteur Universite, Strasbourg, France (2002)
William C. Rose Award, American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2004)
Elected Member, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)(2004)
Fellow, ISMAR (2008)
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2010)
Fellow, International Academy of Physical Sciences (2011)
Acharya P.C. Ray Memorial Award in Chemistry, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India (2015)
Lifetime Achievement Award, Taiwan Magnetic Resonance Society (2016)
Lifetime Achievement Award, Taiwan Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (2018)
TASCO Lifetime Award Achievement in Chemistry (2018)