Nobel Prize in Physics 2010

Born: 21 October 1958, Sochi, Russia

Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Prize motivation: “for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene”

Prize share: 1/2

Work

Carbon exists in several different natural forms. A material consisting of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice and only one atom thick was long considered a purely theoretical construction. In 2004 Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov successfully produced this material, graphene, and mapped its properties: incredibly thin but still incredibly strong, good heat and electrical conductivity, almost entirely transparent yet very dense. Graphene creates new possibilities within materials technology and electronics.

Dr. Chung-Yuan Mou

- Present Association: Nano Targeting & Therapy Biopharma Inc.(奈力生醫, NTT Biopharma)

- Education: BS. Taiwan University(1970),  Ph.D. Washington University, St Louis(1975).

- Professional Association: 

    Associate Prof. Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University(1978-1982)
    Professor, Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University(1982-)
    Chairman, Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University (2004-2007)
    University Chair, National Taiwan University (2008-2020)
    Deputy Minister, National Science Council (May, 2012-March, 2014 )
    Co-Founder, Nano Targeting & Therapy Biopharma(NTT) (2016-)
    Research Chair Professor, National Taiwan University (2020-)
    Research Chair Professor, Taipei Medical University (2021-) 

- Research Field: Chemistry of silica nanomaterials with Catalytic and Biomedical applications
                            Supercooled water, nanofiltration.

- Recognitions

1. Distinguished Researcher, National Science Council (3 times) 

2. Hou Chin-dui Foundation Research Award (1999)

3. Research Foundation Professor (1998-2001)

4. National Chair Professor (2000-2003)

5. Cozzarelli Prize of the National Academy of Science of USA(2007) 

6. William Mong Lecture, Hong Kong UST (2011)

7. University Chair Professor(2008-2012), National Taiwan University

8. TWAS-Chemistry Award (2014)

9. Sam I Weissman Lecture, Washington University, St. Louis (2014)

10. Academician, Academia Sinica (2016-)

Dr. Hsu-Chun Hsiao

Dr. Hsu-Chun Hsiao is a professor in Computer Science and Information Engineering Department at National Taiwan University. She completed her B.S. and M.S. at National Taiwan University in 2006 and 2008, respectively, and her Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University in 2014. Her research focuses on building practical security solutions with theoretical underpinnings. She is a recipient of several research, teaching, and mentoring awards, including Ta-You Wu Memorial Award from Taiwan’s Ministry of Science and Technology and IEEE S&P Test-of-Time Award. She is an alumnus of Taipei First Girls High School.

Dr. Meng-Fan (Marvin) Chang, IEEE Fellow

Dr. Chang is currently a Director of Corporate Research at TSMC and a Distinguished Professor at National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan. 

Dr. Chang has over 15 years of industrial experience and has been active in academia since 2006. His research interests include circuit designs for memory, circuit-device interaction, compute-in-memory for AI chips. 

He has served as sub-committee chairs of several top semiconductor conferences, including IEDM, ISSCC and DAC. He currently is the Technical Program Committee (TPC) Chair of IEDM 2025 and the Memory Subcommittee Chair of ISSCC 2025.

He has authored or coauthored over 100+ top conference papers in the semiconductor area, and was recognized in 2023 as one of the Top 10 Contributors of Papers to ISSCC (the top-1 Chip Design conference) over its first 70 years. He has also published more than 100 U.S. patents and over 100 journal papers, including in Science, Nature, and various IEEE journals. Dr. Chang is a Fellow of the IEEE.