Research Fellow
Ph.D., History, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
History of Sino-Western Communications and Encounters, History of Science and Technology
Education:
1994, Ph.D., History, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
1988, M.A., Tsing Hua University, Institute of History
1982, B.A., Taiwan University, Department of Business Administration
Current and Previous Positions:
2019.3-2023.6, Chairperson of History Department, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
2012- , Convener, Program for Health in East Asian Societies, Research Center for Humanity and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica (joined appointment)
2008-2011, Convener, Program for the History of Health, Research Center for Humanity and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica (joined appointment)
2007- , Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
2000-2007, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
1995-2000, Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
1994-1995, Post-doc, Tsing Hua University
Public Service:
2010-2112, Associate Editor, EASTS
2008-2010, Secretary and Editor, Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
2006-2012, Editor, Taiwanese Journal for the Study of Science Technology and Medicine
2006-2009, Editor, EASTS
2004, Referee of Zhu Kezhen Award (East Asian Association of History of Science Technology and Medicine)
2002-2007, Editor, Disquisitions on Past and Present
2020, Outstanding Research Award, Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST)
2019-2024, Academia Sinica Investigator Award
2016.9.1-11.30, 義大利佩魯賈大學 (Perugia University) 語言、社會科學及教育系訪問交換學者
2014.10.1-31, 2015.4.15-6.30, 德國Heidelberg University, Visiting Scholar of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context: The Dynamics of Transculturality”
2013.5.1-7.30, 9.26-12.25, 首爾大學Templeton Foundation獎助學者
2012.9.1-10.31, 韓國高等研究院 (KIAS) 「Images, Artistic and Scientific」計畫獎助學者
2011.4.1-2012.3.31, 獲得德國Erlangen-Nuremberg大學研究計畫獎助
2001, Award of Young Scholars of the Year (Taiwan)
1998, Daxiang Essay Award (China) (Awarded Essay “The Formation of Factual Knowledge in Trans-cultural Scientific Transactions: The Debate over the Sphericity of the Earth in China, 1600-1800.”)