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Chun-Chia Chou (Rita) 周均珈
Chun-Chia Chou (Rita) 周均珈
Assistant Professor
Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University
Chun-Chia is an ecologist motivated to fundamentally explore animal sensory process and communication across a broad array of environmental conditions. She adopts multiple approaches to tackle research questions within this scope, such as field observation, experimental manipulation, digital image analyses, comparative analyses, and mathematical models.
She received her Ph. D. at the Australian National University, studying intersexual communication in fiddler crabs. Thereafter, she did her postdoc research at Taiwan National Museum of Natural Science, working on cross-population phenotypical variation using different reptile species. She joined the Master’s Program in Biodiversity, National Taiwan University, as an assistant professor in 2023-2025. In August 2025, she received an offer from the NTNU and decided to join this big family!
Postdoc
Arata Nakayama 中山新
Arata Nakayama 中山新
Arata is a NSTC postdoctoral research fellow (114-2811-B-002-032, 114-2811-B-003-005), originally from Japan. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo, where he studied the visual and behavioral ecology of cuttlefish. Now at this lab, he is investigating how fiddler crabs adapt their visual communication strategies to different habitat types. His research skills include behavioral experiments, image analysis, microscopy, and optical techniques. By integrating these approaches, he aims to explore how animal behavior and morphology shape their visual communication.
Research assistant
Zi-Quan Liao 廖子荃
Zi-Quan is a graduate of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Studies at National Dong Hwa University. She enjoys exploring different places to learn about various wildlife and assists the Biodiversity Research Center with preparing bird specimens. She is currently working as a laboratory assistant(and a mouse chewing on delicious lab snacks).
katie920110@gmail.com
Chi-Heng Hsieh 謝季恆
Chi-Heng Hsieh 謝季恆
Chi-Heng got her Master’s degree from the Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at National Taiwan University. She’s an urban ornithologist who studies human–wildlife conflicts and started bird–window collision (BWC) research in Taiwan, maintaining the largest BWC database in tropical and subtropical Asia. Currently, she is working on a project that investigates the behavioral responses of urban-dwelling birds to urbanization. She primarily assists with Taiwan Blue Magpie projects in this lab. Anything related to animal behavior, community science, and museum collections sparks her interest.
chihenghsieh.barbet@gmail.com
Ong Woei 王淳
Ong Woei 王淳
Ong Woei is a fourth-year geoscience student at National Taiwan University with a growing interest in wildlife and animal behavior. He is currently carrying out image analysis. Although his academic background is in geoscience rather than zoology, his deep love for animals and strong enthusiasm for all forms of wildlife drive him to seek opportunities to participate in diverse animal-related research projects.
Ongwoei0822@gmail.com
Master students
Yung-Chi Chang 張詠祺
Yung-Chi Chang 張詠祺
Yung-Chi is currently an undergrad at the Dept. Life Science, NTU, co-supervised by myself and Dr. Chih-Ming Hung. She plans to start her master's degree in the summer of 2024. She has experience of working on the blue magpie study during her internship in Dr. Hung's lab at Academia Sinica. She is currently working on a project investigating prey visual perception toward different predatory stimuli and will continue to finalize this project in her master study.
chang2619203@gmail.com
Chieh-Li Wang 王介立
Chieh-Li Wang 王介立
Chieh-Li is an enthusiastic animal lover with experience in keeping various reptiles and arthropods, as well as in wildlife photography. His current research investigates how habitat fragmentation influences the mating behaviors of fiddler crabs, with a particular focus on identifying the underlying ecological and behavioral mechanisms.
j39287573marco@gmail.com
Undergrad interns
Yu-Jia Wong 黃語佳
Yu-Jia Wong 黃語佳
Yu Jia is a fourth-year veterinary student at NTU, exploring her interests in wildlife medicine and conservation. She has previously interned at JT's Lab of Conservation Reproductive Biology & Regenerative Medicine on the cryopreservation of orangutan and chimpanzee sperm. Currently, her research is funded by NSTC undergrad research grant (114-2813-C-002-079-B) and she takes part in the investigation of how vertical obstructions influence the courtship efforts of male fiddler crabs. While her primary focus is veterinary medicine, she is open to discovering new areas outside of the medical field!
wongyujia093@gmail.com
Jia-Yun Huang黃珈紜
Jia-Yun Huang黃珈紜
Huang Jia-Yun is a senior at National Taiwan Normal University, majoring in Education with a double major in Life Science. She has a strong passion for nature and biodiversity, and her current research focuses on changes in animal food webs as species transition from natural habitats to urban environments. In her spare time, she enjoys music and exercise. Her interests include citizen science, ecological education, and research on changes in food webs, and she hopes to contribute meaningfully to the development of ecological education in the future.
betty51320@gmail.com
Jo-Chiao Su (Rochelle) 蘇若喬
Jo-Chiao Su (Rochelle) 蘇若喬
Rochelle is a student in the Department of Geography at NTNU. Due to her keen interest in biogeography, she is currently studying in the Department of Life Science. Besides biology and geography, Rochelle enjoys reading content related to sociology and philosophy in her daily life. She believes that sociology and biology can be mutually illuminating, just as Wallace and Darwin were inspired by Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population to propose the concept of natural selection. Her dream is to one day travel the world and see the Amazon rainforest, the Himalayas, and the African savanna, among others.
surochelle815@gmail.com
Alumni
Research assistant
Jing-Chia Guo 郭景嘉 (Monash Uni, CV)
Ting-Wei Lee 李亭葳
Master student
Yan Wah Chung 鍾欣樺
Undergrad intern
Ke-An Hung 洪可安
Yu-Jhen Huang 黃鈺蓁 (NSTC 113-2813-C-002-141-B)
Summer intern
Chi-Chen Yeh 葉至宸
Muqri Iman
Audrey Yang
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