For International District Director: David Wu
By David Wu
Taiwan International Chemical Sciences Chapter. Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
Academic record: Harvard College, BA, 1985; University of California at Berkeley, PhD, 1991; Cambridge University, UK, Post-doc Physics, 1993; University of California at Santa Barbara, Post-doc, 1996.
Honors: Junior Research Fellowship, Wolfson College, Cambridge University, 1992-93; Research Innovation Award, Research Corporation, 1997; Visiting Joliot Chair Professor, ESPCI, Paris, France, 2003; Foreign Expert, China 111 project, China University of Petroleum, 2017-21; Science and Technology Recruitment Fellowship, CTCI Foundation, Taiwan, 2021; Outstanding Scholar Award, FOAS Foundation, Taiwan, 2023.
Professional positions (for the past 10 years): Academia Sinica, Director of the Institute of Chemistry, Taiwan, 2021-present; Colorado School of Mines, Assistant, Associate & Professor of Chemistry and Geochemistry and of Chemical and Biological Engineering, 1996-present, Department Head of Chemistry, 2012-17, Associate Director of the Center for Hydrate Research, 2009-14; National Taiwan University, Invited Visiting Professor, 2017, 2018, Joint Professor, 2021
Service in ACS national offices: Committee on International Activities, 2019-24, Asia & Pacific Basin, Subcommittee Chair, 2019-21; Strategic Planning Committee, 2019, Committee Associate, 2015-18.
Service in ACS offices: ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium, Local Organizer, 2006, 2021.
Member: Member of ACS since 2005. Materials Research Society; Chemical Society Located in Taipei; Taiwan Theoretical and Computational Molecular Sciences Association. ACS Divisions: Physical Chemistry; Computers in Chemistry.
Related activities: National Taiwan University, College of Science, Evaluation Committee, 2023; World Scientific, Materials and Energy Series, Scientific Advisory Board, 2022-24; Health Sciences Education Foundation, Taiwan, Board of Directors, 2019-24; CECAM (Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire) Council Member, 2024-present; ACS National Meeting, Symposium Co-Chair on “Water, Ice, and Clathrate Hydrate Geochemistry,” 2019; Telluride Science Research Center, Workshop Co-Organizer on “Clathrate Hydrate Fundamentals,” 2017; 6th International Powders and Grains Conference, Local Organizer, 2009; American Physical Society National Meeting, Symposium Chair on Jamming, 2007; American Institute of Chemical Engineering, Symposium Chair on Polymer Thin Films, 2000; Proposal Reviewer & Review Committee Member for NSF, NIH MABS Study Section, DOE and ACS PRF; Consultant to Porous Power Technologies, 2008-09; published 87 journal articles, one book, and four book contributions; holds one patent in Colloidal Chemistry.
