Education
PhD, Chemical Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA (8/1990-5/1995)
MSc, Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan (7/1986-10/1987)
BSc, Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan (10/1980-5/1984)
Employment
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada (7/2009-present)
Department of Biology (cross-appointment), University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, (10/2009-present)
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada (2/2004-6/2009)
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan (8/2000-1/2004)
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan (8/1995-7/2000)
Teaching and Research Assistant
Department of Chemical Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA (8/1990-5/1995)
Associate Researcher
Union Chemical Laboratory, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan (10/1987-7/1990)
Secondary Lieutenant
Taiwanese Air Force, Hsinchu, Taiwan (7/1984-5/1986)
Experience
Canada Research Chair
Biomanufacturing (5/2010-4/2015); Recombinant protein production (5/2005-4/2010)
Managing Editor/Editor
Biotechnology Advances (Impact factor: 17.681), ELSEVIER (5/2022-present as Managing Editor; 9/2007-5/2022 as Editor)
Associate Editor
BMC Biotechnology (Impact factor: 3.286), SPRINGER NATURE (9/2019-present)
Frontiers in Microbiology (Impact factor: 5.615), FRONTIERS MEDIA SA (8/2018-present)
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology (Impact factor: 5.813), FRONTIERS MEDIA SA (8/2018-present)
Editorial Board Member
Synthetic Biology and Engineering, SCIEPublish (10/2022-present)
BioTech, MDPI (6/2021-present)
Bioresources and Bioprocessing (Impact factor: 4.983), SPRINGER NATURE (12/2019-present)
Scientific Reports (Impact factor: 4.996), NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP (2/2016-present)
Journal of Bioprocessing & Biotechniques, OMICs Publishing Group (9/2010-present)
Guest Editor
Special issues: Biosorption, Bioresource Technology (Impact factor: 11.889), Elsevier (9/2013-8/2014)
Special issue: Biorefinery, Bioresource Technology (Impact factor: 11.889), Elsevier (4/2012-12/2012)
Special issue: Biohydrogen, Bioresource Technology (Impact factor: 11.889), Elsevier (7/2010-4/2011)
Professional Engineer
Member of Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO), Canada (9/2009-present)
Visiting Professor
Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (4/2011-4/2012)
Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan (2/2012-7/2012),
Department of Biology, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA (8/2001-1/2002)
