SYNAPSE - Key Persons
Adriano Aguzzi is a 2019 NOMIS awardee and has been full professor of neuropathology and director of the Institute of Neuropathology at the University of Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland) since 1997.
Ann-Shyn Chiang Received Ph.D. (1990) and trained as a postdoctoral fellow (1992) in Rutgers University, Ann-Shyn Chiang joined Department of Life Science, National Tsing Hua University as an associate professor (1992), promoted as professor (1997), took sabbatical to study Drosophila memory at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (2001) and became the adjunct International Faculty of Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind (KIBM) at the University of California, San Diego (2011).
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- Member of the Executive Board
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- Japanese Professor of Biology at the University of Tokyo
Hiroki R. Ueda is a Japanese Professor of biology at the University of Tokyo and the RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center. He is known for his studies on the circadian clock.
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- Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences ( China )
Jun HU currently works at the Division of Lithosphere Evolution, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Jun does research in Petrology, Geology and Geochemistry. Their current project is ‘the crust-mantle interaction revealed by deep-seated xenoliths'.
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- Team Leader in the Center for Computational Science
Kento Sato is a team leader in the Center for Computational Science at RIKEN (RIKEN R-CCS). His research area is distributed systems and parallel computing, particularly in High Performance Computing (HPC).
Tan Tin Wee, an Internet pioneer in Singapore, founded the multilingual Internet domain name system and has been instrumental in its internationalization. In the 1990s under his leadership, Singapore hosted the first Chinese Website and Tamil Website. He has been widely recognized for his award-winning technological efforts in the Tamil-speaking community. He continues to guide the development of Tamil Internet as a technical advisor to the nascent Tamil Internet Steering Committee.
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- Professor, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica ( Taiwan )
Yeu-Kuang Hwu, Chinese physics professor, researcher. Achievements include patents for novel phase contrast radiology; invention of novel x-ray synthesis methods for nanoparticles; development of ultrahigh resolution x-ray microscopy.