Curriculum Vitae

     Principle Investigator

    Dr. John Shih-Ching Chuang

   莊士卿

   チュアン　シーチン

      E-mail: jscchuang@faculty.nctu.edu.tw

                   jscchuang@gmail.com

      Tel (office):+886-3-5731858;+886-3-5712121 ext 56508

           (lab): +886-3-5712121 ext 56513

    

     Educational Data

•         B.S. Department of Chemistry, Tunghai Christian University, Taichung, Taiwan
•         M.S. Department of Chemistry, Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

•         2^nd Lieutenant, Army, Taiwan
•         Research Assistant., Department of Chemistry, Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
•         Ph.D., Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles (2005)

•         Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University (2007)
•         Assistant Professor, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan (2007~ now)

  

     Thesis Title

• Master Thesis:   Chemistry and Reactivity of C₆₀, Phosphines and Acetylenes

(Advisor: Prof. Chien-Hong Cheng (鄭建鴻 教授), Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)

• Ph.D Thesis:      Nanosurgery of C₆₀

(Advisor: Prof. Yves Rubin, UCLA) (Committees: Prof. Yang Yang, Fred Wudl, and James Bowie at UCLA)

     Awards, Scholarships, Fellowships

• 1992                      Mr. Shih-Jui Hsu Scholarship (許世睿先生獎學金), Taiwan
• 1993 to 1994         Mr. Kuo-Fu Chen Scholarship (陳果夫先生獎學金二次), Taiwan
• 1995 to 1997         The Ministry of Education Graduate Scholarship, Taiwan
• 1996 to 1997         National Science Council Scholarship, Taiwan
• 2000 to 2002         Teaching Assistantship, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California, Los Angeles

• 2002 to 2004         Teaching Fellowship, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles

• 2004 to 2005         Dissertation Year Fellowship, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles

     Membership

• 2000 to present      American Chemical Society
• 2006 to present      Chemical Society of Japan

     Teaching Experiences at UCLA

• CHEM 144: Organic Synthesis (with Prof. Yves Rubin)
• CHEM 136: Organic Spectroscopy (with Prof. Ohyun Kwon)
• Chem 130A: Organic Chemistry (with Prof. John Mauser))
• CHEM 20B: General Chemistry (Kinetics and Thermodynamics, with Prof. Delroy Baugh)
• CHEM 14A: General Chemistry (with Prof. Lawrence Lavelle)
• 14BL: General Chemistry Laboratory (with Prof. Johnny Pang)
• 14CL: General Chemistry Laboratory (with Prof. Maher Henary)

     Research Interests

• Computationally directed organic synthesis of designed novel molecules and development of new organic methodology
• Chemical and biophysical properties of derivatized fullerenes and nanotubes
• Chemistry of endohedral metallofullerenes
• Host-guest chemistry of superamolecules and fullerenes; molecular recognition
• Novel materials developed from carbon-based molecules, aimed for organic plastic solar cells
• Kinetic study of potential reaction sequences
• Crystal engineering, X-ray diffraction study of novel potential compounds