To strengthen the research energy of universities and international connection, the Ministry of Education has built a superior academic environment and provided sufficient resources to attract and retain exceptional academic talent through the Yushan Scholar Program to recruit international esteemed scientists or researchers to teach in Taiwan.
The SAC member of NSRRC, Academician Tai-Chang Chiang, is awarded the 2019 Yushan Scholar by the Ministry of Education. Academician Tai-Chang Chiang is an emeritus and research professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in USA. He has been elected by the Academia Sinica to its 2016 class of Academicians. Over his career course, he has made significant contributions to condensed-matter physics, surface science, and synchrotron radiation research. As an early pioneer of the angle-resolved photoemission technique for determining electron band structure of solids, surfaces and films, he later developed the thermal diffuse scattering (TDS) technique, which allows to determine phonon band structure of materials at synchrotron facilities.
In addition to serving in the Scientific Advisory Committee from 2012, Academician Chiang has a long association with the NSRRC for supporting its development. Over the past 30 years, he has continuously assisted in the training of scientific research talents and contributed a lot to basic scientific research in Taiwan. At present, he also assists the Ministry of Science and Technology to guide the construction of experimental station, Nanometer Angle-resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy, at Taiwan Photon Source and conducts the research of quantum materials and physics for the novel next-generation 2D materials.