About Chun-Yi
Top of Yushan (3952 m). Photo credit: Dr. Pu Lin 林溥醫師
Chun-Yi Lin (林峻毅), Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Education
B.S. in Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan (2009)
Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of California, Davis, CA, USA (2017)
Academic Experience
Postdoctoral Fellow (with Professor Joseph M. Zadrozny) | Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant (with Professor Philip P. Power) | Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Undergraduate Teaching and Research Assistant (with Professor Yi-Chou Tsai 蔡易州) | Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Visiting Student | University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
Chun-Yi was born in Taichung City, Taiwan and grew up in nearby Fengyuan City (now Fengyuan District, meaning flourishing plain) and received a BS in chemistry with a Minor in physics from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan in 2009. His undergraduate research with Professor Yi-Chou Tsai focused on the synthesis and reactivity of the quintuply-bonded dichromium species. After serving his country in the Taiwanese Air Force (Rank: Second Lieutenant), he joined Professor Phil Power’s lab to pursue a PhD in the University of California, Davis, where his research interest lies in inorganic and organometallic synthesis, focusing on the reactivity and magnetic properties of low-coordinate transition metal complexes, in particular, using attractive dispersion forces to stabilize unusual species. After his PhD, he decided to broaden his experience and skillset in inorganic chemistry and joined Professor Joe Zadrozny's young lab at the Colorado State University, where he worked on the design and characterization of transition metal complexes for electronic paramagnetic resonance imaging (EPRI) agents. In January 2019, he returned to his home country and serves as an Assistant Professor at the National Cheng Kung University in the sunny Southern Taiwan. When he is not doing and thinking of chemistry, he can be found hiking, exploring the historical Tainan city, playing baseball/softball, and rooting for the 2010, 2012, and 2014 World Series Champions San Francisco Giants.
In celebration of the International Year of the Periodic Table in 2019, below is his "Elements of Research" (in short, the elements he used for research) during his undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral careers (2008-2018). As an organometallic chemist, he has widespread interest in the first- and second-row transition metals and some main group elements! In his independent research, he aims to expand this table to third-row transition metals and lanthanide elements.
