Prof. Yen-Ju Cheng (鄭彥如)     

Office: Tin Ka-Ping Photonics Building, Room 715A

E-mail: yjcheng@nycu.edu.tw

Tel: (886)-3-5131520

    Education and Work Experience 

   1995–1999, Bachelor, Department of Applied Chemistry, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

1999/09–2004/06, Ph.D, Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

2004/07–2005/05, Postdoc, Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

2005/06–2008/06, Research Associate, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington, USA

2008/08–2011/07, Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry, National Chiao Tung University

2011/08–2014/07, Associate Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry, National Chiao Tung University

2014/08, Professor, Department ofApplied Chemistry, National Chiao Tung University

   Honors and Awards 

2004, The Best Poster Award of Graduate Student Section, Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University.

2004, The Dean’s Award of College of Science, National Taiwan University.

2004, The Yen Thesis Award sponsored by Yen Foundation, Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University.

2004, Dr. Ta-Shue Chou Memorial Award for Excellent Graduate Student in Organic Chemistry, Chinese Chemical Society, Taipei, Taiwan.

2011, Young Scholar Outstanding Research Award, College of Science, National Chiao Tung University.

2012, Outstanding Young Scholar Award for Polymer Research, The Polymer Society, Taipei.

2012, Outstanding Young Chemist Award, Chemical Society Located  in Taipei.

2013, Dr. Ta-You Wu Memorial Award, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan.    

2013, The Golden-Jade Fellowship, the Kenda Foundation, Taiwan.  

2014, Young Scholar Innovation Award, Foundation of the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship, Taiwan.

2015, Outstanding Young Scholar Award, Shiu-Mu Foundation of Chemistry, Taiwan.

2015, Junior Research Investigators Award, Academia Sinica.

2015, Lectureship Award for Asian and Oceanian Photochemist, The Japanese Photochemistry Association, Japan.

2016, Distinguished Lectureship Award, The CSJ Asian International Symposium, The Chemical Society of Japan.

2016, “Excellent Teaching Award”, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.

2018, “Research Distinguished Professor Award”, LCY Education Foundation.

2020, “Excellent Teaching Award”, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.

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