More about me

  1999-2006: As a graduate student at Physics Department of University of Chicago, I took many courses, at least one from each major field in physics. Three of them are directly relevant to my research interests.  I learned the basics notions of soft condensed matter physics from the course "Structured Fluids" taught by my advisor Prof. Thomas A. Witten. The seminar-styled course "Biological Physics" by Prof. Philippe Cluzel raised my awareness of interesting physical aspects of biological systems. The course "Topics in Fluid Mechanics" jointly taught by Profs. Sidney R. Nagel and Wendy Zhang aroused my interest in instabilities in fluid dynamics.  
    In summer 2000 I worked in the laboratory of Prof. Heinrich M. Jaeger, where I successfully produced gold nanorods using the electrochemical method of Yu et al. (J. Phys. Chem. B, 34, 6661, 1997). In summer 2005 I attended Gordon Research Conference on Liquid Crystals and ICMR Summer Program on Topics in Biomaterials at UCSB.  These two conferences further broadened my knowledge of biophysics and soft condensed matter physics.  
    As for my research, I worked with my advisor Prof. Thomas A. Witten on topics in semidilute polymer solutions, supercoiling of DNA, and physics of lipid bilayer membranes. We proposed a model to explain the longstanding puzzles of myelin formation and coiling often observed during the dissolution of dry surfactants. Our findings may help develop techniques in controlled production of multilamellar vesicles for applications such as drug delivery and encapsulation.
  1995-1999: See Work experience.
  1993-1995: I was admitted to the Master Program of the Department of Physics, National Taiwan University and awarded Academic Excellence Scholarship for two years. Under the supervision of Prof. Yih-Yuh Chen, I wrote a thesis on the finite-size effect on Landau diamagnetism (unpublished).
  1988-1993: I was an undergraduate of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University. After trying many different things, I decided to study physics.
   
  • Work experience:
  1999-2006: In addition to my research, I am also experienced in teaching. I often worked as a teaching assistant at the Physics Department and mostly taught in the laboratories for students who majored in physics. 
  1997-1999: I worked as a research assistant in the laboratory of Drs. Kiwing To and Chi-Keung Chan at  Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. This job gave me hands-on experience of experiments on granular materials and soft materials such as polymers.
  1995-1997: I fulfilled the two-year mandatory military duty by serving in the army as a platoon leader and later a deputy captain. Although the military service seems irrelevant to my career as a physicist, it was a great experience for me. During these two years, I made friends with people from different backgrounds and  moreover, I got to practice leadership skills under difficult situations.
   
  • Other stuff:
  I am interested in science.
  I listen to Chicago Public Radio, a member station of National Public Radio.
  I like classical music and jazz.
  I like photography but I am just an amateur equipped with an ok camera. See my pictures.
  ... to be continued ...

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Last updated on December 06, 2005.