The Shui-Chin Lee Postdoctoral Research Fellowship supports outstanding postdoctoral researchers in pursuing innovative, forward-looking research as part of ASIoP's commitment to nurturing early-career scientists.

July 24, 2026

The Best Research Paper Award for Junior Research Investigators is established to encourage young scholars of the Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica to pursue in-depth academic research and publish outstanding research papers.

July 1, 2026

This study develops a theoretical framework showing how the interplay between tissue curvature and cell mechanics generates depth-dependent stress anisotropy, leading to three-dimensional cell shape changes in curved epithelial layers.

June 30, 2026

This study establishes optimal driving strategies for active odd tracers in viscoelastic media, demonstrating how measurement, odd mobility, and memory effects can be exploited to enhance energy-efficient transport and active micromachine performance.

June 5, 2026

This work proposes a cytoskeleton-centered mechanism for cell polarization, showing that orientation-dependent interactions between cytoskeletal structures alone can robustly generate spontaneous polarity over a broad range of conditions without requiring conventional reaction–diffusion feedback or global inhibition.

May 19, 2026

This work demonstrates that the natural antimicrobial peptide TP3 spontaneously self-assembles into a biocompatible, self-healing hydrogel with hierarchical nanostructures, enabling broad-spectrum antimicrobial, antibiofilm, and anti-adhesion functions through an interfacial “trap-and-kill” mechanism.

May 12, 2026

This work develops a low-cost, prism-free polymer nanograting SPR imaging platform with integrated microfluidics for high-throughput, multiplexed biomolecular sensing and simultaneous kinetic analysis.

April 7, 2026

March 31, 2026

This theoretical work investigates how localized activity along a polymer chain regulates its conformation and dynamics, revealing that the position of active segments critically controls swelling and anomalous transport.

March 30, 2026

This work develops a scaffold-free mimetic microfibrous scaffold that promotes self-organized Achilles tendon regeneration by reducing inflammation, improving tissue alignment, and enhancing functional recovery.

March 19, 2026

This work reveals how self-propelled active particles spontaneously aggregate at confining boundaries, uncovering collective dynamics analogous to motility-induced phase separation that reshape transport and flow in confined active systems.

March 18, 2026

This award recognizes his significant contributions to uncovering the physical principles of symmetry breaking and energy conversion in active cytoskeletal systems using artificial cells.

February 10, 2026

This work reveals that centrosome positioning is not universally required for epithelial polarization, showing that Par3 regulates centrosome positioning independently of apical membrane formation and establishing the hierarchical relationships among polarity establishment, apical membrane formation, and centrosome dynamics.

January 7, 2026