Curriculum Vitae of Professor Lou-Chuang Lee
NameLou-Chuang Lee 李羅權Distinguished Visiting Chair of Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica
Li Kwoh Ting Chair Professor of National Central University, Institute of Space Science

Address
Academia Sinica, Institute of Earth Sciences
128, Sec. 2, Academia Road, Nangang, Taipei 115, Taiwan
TEL：+886-2-2783-9910 ext. 304 ; +886-911-596-880
FAX：+886-2-2783-9871
E-mail：louclee@earth.sinica.edu.twDegrees
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M. S.
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Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1975
Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1972
Physics, National Taiwan University, 1969Employment / Research Experience
1. Director, Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica(2014-2017)
2. Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Earth Sciences, AcademiaSinica(2012-2017)
3. National Science Council, Minister, 2008 − 2012.
4. National Central University, President, 2006 − 2008.
5. National Central University, Institute of Space Science, Professor, 2006 −2017.
6. National Applied Research Laboratories, Founding President, 2003 − 2006.
7. National Space Organization (NSPO), Chief Scientist, 1997 − 2001; Director, 2001 −2003.
8. National Cheng Kung University, College of Science, Dean, 1995 – 2001.
9. University of Alaska, Geophysical Institute, Professor, 1978 – 1995.
10. University of Maryland, Institute for Physics Science and Technology, Visiting AssistantProfessor, 1977 – 1978.
11. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Research Associate, 1975 – 1977.
12. Visiting Professor / Scientist: Tokyo University (1986), University of Maryland(1985,1987), National Central University (1990), Princeton University (1991), China
University of Science and Technology (1990), Nagoya University (1996).

HONORS AND AWARDS
1. Japan Toray Science Foundation Fellow, 1986.
2. Terris Moore Award in Space Physics, “For his work on auroral kilometric radition”,
Terris Moore, Boston and University of Alaska, 1987.
3. Outstanding Faculty Performance Award, University of Alaska, 1988.
4. Fulbright Distinguished Scholar, Institute for Space Research, Dos Campos, Brazil,
1988.
5. Honorary Professor, Center for Space Science and Application, Chinese Academy ofSciences (Beijing), 1990.
6. International Guest Professor, China University of Science and Technology, Hefei,China, 1990

7. Emil Usibelli Distinguished Research Award, University of Alaska, 1994.
8. Outstanding Scholar, Foundation of the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship,Taiwan, 1996-2001.
9. Outstanding Research Achievement Award, National Science Council 1997-1998,2001-2002.
10. Outstanding Performance Award, “For his contribution to FORMOSAT-1 Project”,
National Science Council, 1999.
11. Fellow, Physical Society of the Republic of China, 2000.
12. Academic Award, Ministry of Education, Taiwan, 2001.
13. Elected Academician, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2002.
14. Li Kwoh Ting Chair Professor, National Central University, 2005, 2012-2017.
15. Fellow, Meteorological Society of the Republic of China, 2005.
16. The Presidential Science Prize (The highest honor in science in Taiwan), “For hisoutstanding contributions in space science and his implementation of two world-classspace programs, FORMOSAT-2 and FORMOSAT-3”, 2005.
17. Elected Member, The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), 2006.
18. Elected Member, International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), 2007.
19. Elected Member, International Academy of Engineering, Russian Academy ofEngineering (IAE), 2011.
20. Achievement Medal (First Rank), “For promotion of science and technology in Taiwan
during his tenure as Minister of National Science Council”, Executive Yuan, Taiwan,
2012.
21. Distinguished Lecture, at Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) Annual Meeting inBrisbane, 2013.
22. Subramanyan Chandrasekhar Prize of Plasma Physics (AAPPS-DPP), 2017.

Memberships
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American Geophysical Union.
American Physical Society.
The Physical Society of Republic of China, Fellow.
Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies (Division of Plasma Physics)
The Meteorological Society of the Republic of China, Fellow.
Asia Oceania Geosciences Society.

Service to the community
1. Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), AmericanGeophysical Union, 1989 – 1991.
2. Editor-in-Chief, Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (TAO), ChineseGeoscience Union (Taiwan), 1997 – 2001.
3. Editorial Board Member, Chinese Journal of Geophysics (China), 2001-2012.
4. President, Chinese Geoscience Union (CGU), 2001-2003.
5. Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), American Geophysical Union,
2001 – 2005.
6. President, Aeronautical and Astronautical Society of the Republic of China (AASRC),
2003 – 2005.
7. President, National Committee of Republic of China for International Union of Radio
Science (URSI), 2006 – present.

Selected Bibliography
Professor L. C. Lee has published 306 papers in scientific journals and monographs.
The total number of citations based on WoS (Web of Science) is 8,021 and h-index is 46.
The total number citations based on Google Scholar is 11,216 and h-index is57.(November 9, 2017)(1) Theory of strong scintillations and interstellar turbulence spectrum
Lee, L. C., and J. R. Jokipii, Strong scintillations in astrophysics, I. The Markovapproximation, its validity and application to angular broadening, Astrophys. J., 196, 699,
1975.
Lee, L. C., and J. K. Jokipii, Strong scintillations in astrophysics, II. A theory of temporal
broadening of pulses, Astrophys. J., 201, 532, 1975.
Lee, L. C., and J. R. Jokipii, Strong scintillations in astrophysics, III. The fluctuations inintensity, Astrophys. J., 202, 349-453, 1975.
Lee, L. C., and J. R. Jokipii, The irregularity spectrum in interstellar space, Astrophys. J.,
206, 735-743, 1976.

(2) A theory of auroral kilometric radiation
Wu, C. S., and L. C. Lee, A theory of the terrestrial kilometric radiation, Astrophys. J., 230,621-626, 1979.
Lee, L. C. and C. S. Wu, Amplification of radiation near cyclotron frequencydue to electron
population inversion, Phys. Fluids, 23, 1348, 1980.
Lee, L. C., J. R. Kan and C. S. Wu, Generation of auroral kilometric radiation and thestructure of auroral acceleration region, Planet. Space Sci., 28, 703,1980.

(3) The structure, stability and particle transport across tangential
discontinuty and rotational discontinuty at the Earth’s magnetopause
Lee, L. C., and J. R. Kan, A unified kinetic model of the tangential magnetopause structure,J. Geophys. Res., 84, 6417-6426, 1979.
Kan, J. R., and L. C. Lee, Energy coupling function and solar wind-magnetosphere dynamo,Geophys. Res. Lett., 6, 577-580, 1979.
Lee, L. C., R. K. Albano, and J.R. Kan, Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in themagnetopause-boundary layer region, J. Geophys. Res., 86, 54-58, 1981.
Swift, D. W., and L. C. Lee, Rotational discontinuities and the structure of themagnetopause, J. Geophys. Res., 88, 111-124, 1983.
Lee, L. C., J. R. Johnson, and Z. W. Ma, Kinetic Alfven waves as a source of plasmatransport at the dayside magnetopause, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 17405-17411, 1994.

(4) A theory of multiple scattering of coda waves for local earthquakes
Gao, L. S., L. C. Lee, N. N. Biswas, and K. Aki, Comparison of the effects between single
and multiple-scattering on coda waves for local earthquakes, Bull. Seim. Soc. Am., 73,377-389, 1983.
Gao, L. S., N. N. Biswas, L. C. Lee, and K. Aki, Effects of multiple scattering on coda wave
in three-dimensional medium, Pure Appl. Geophys., (PAGEOPH), 121, 3-15, 1983.

(5) A theory of flux transfer events
Lee, L. C. and Z. F. Fu, A theory of magnetic flux transfer at the Earth’s magnetopause,Geophys. Res. Lett., 12, 105, 1985.
Lee, L. C., and Z. F. Fu, Multiple X-line reconnection: 1. A criterion for the transition froma single X-line to a multiple X-line reconnection, J. Geophys. Res., 91, 6807-6815, 1986.

Lanzerotti, L. J., L. C. Lee, C. G. Maclennan, A. Wolfe, and L.V. Medford, Possible
evidence of flux transfer events in the polar ionosphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 13, 1089,1986.

(6) Effects of minor ions and electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves andharmonics mirror waves in the Earth’s magnetosheath
Price, C. P., D.W. Swift, and L. C. Lee, Numerical simulation of nonoscillatory mirror
waves at the Earth's magnetosheath, J. Geophys. Res., 91, 101-112, 1986.
Lee, L. C., C. P. Price, and C. S. Wu, A study of mirror waves generated downstream of aquasi-perpendicular shock, J. Geophys. Res., 93, 247-250, 1988.
Kun-Han Lee and Lou-Chuang Lee, Generation of He+ and O+ EMIC waves by the bunch
distribution of O+ ions associated with fast magnetosonic shocks in the magnetosphere,Geophys. Res. Lett. 43, 9406, 2016.

(7) Formation mechanism and eruption mechanism of solar prominences
Choe, G. S. and L. C. Lee, Formation of solar prominences by photospheric shearing
motions, Solar Physics, 138, 291, 1992.
Choe, G. S. and L. C. Lee, Evolution of solar magnetic arcades. ІІ. Effect of resistivity andsolar eruptive processes, Astrophys. J., 472, 372, 1996.
Professor Eugene Parker wrote in his personal letter to Dr. Lee, stating ” This study(dynamic formations of solar prominence) is a big step forward from the usual staticmodels ”.

(8) Off-diagonal terms of pressure tensor and collisionless magnetic
reconnection
Cai, H. J., D. Q. Ding, and L. C. Lee, Momentum transport near a magnetic X line incollisionless reconnection, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 35-42, 1994.
Cai, H. J., and L. C. Lee, The generalized Ohm's law in collisionless magnetic reconnection,Phys. Plasmas, 4, 509, 1997.
Prof. Jim Dungey wrote in a personal letter to Dr. Cai, stating “I think your paper marks thebreakthrough”.

(9) A heating mechanism for protons and minor ions by fast shocks
Lee, L. C., C. S. Wu, and X. W. Hu, Increase of ion kinetic temperature across acollisionless shock: 1. A new mechanism, Geophys. Res. Lett., 13. 209-212, 1986.
Lee, L. C., and B. H. Wu, Heating and acceleration of protons and minor ions by fast shocks
in solar coronal, Astrophys. J., 535, 1014, 2000.

(10) Discovery of "gigantic jets" in the atmosphere
Su, H. T., R. R. Hsu, A. B. Chen, Y. C. Wang, W. S. Hsiao, W. C. Lai, L. C. Lee, M. Satoand H. Fukunishi, Gigantic jets between a thundercloud and the ionosphere, Nature, 423,974, 2003.
Mende, S. B., H. U. Frey, R. R. Hsu, H. T. Su, A. B. Chen, L. C. Lee, D. D. Sentman, Y.
Takahashi, and H. Fukunishi, D region ionization by lightning-induced electromagneticpulses, J. Geophys. Res., 110, A11312, 2005.
Chen, A. B., Cheng-Ling Kuo, Yi-Jen Lee, Han-Tzong Su, Rue-Ron Hsu, Jyh-Long Chern,Harald U. Frey, Stephen B. Mende, Yukihiro Takahashi, Hiroshi Fukunishi, andLou-Chuang Lee, Global distributions and occurrence rates of transient luminous events, J.
Geophys. Res., 113, A08306, 2008.

Professor Lou-Chuang Lee 李羅權Professor Lou-Chuang Lee was born on April 20, 1947. He received a B.S. degree inphysics from National Taiwan University in 1969, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics
from the California Institute of Technology in 1972 and 1975, respectively. He specializes inspace science and plasma physics. From 1975 to 1995, he performed advanced research at theNASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and served as a professor at the University of Marylandand University of Alaska. Upon returning to Taiwan in 1995, Prof. Lee joined the faculty ofDepartment of Physics at the National Cheng Kung University, and also served as the Dean ofthe College of Science. He was appointed the chief scientist at National Space Program Officein 1997, and made director of National Space Program Office in 2001. Since that time he has
led the science and engineering teams implementing the FORMOSAT-2 and FORMOSAT-3programs. In 2003, he became the first President of the National Applied ResearchLaboratories and the President of National Central University in 2006. In 2008, he wasappointed as the Minister of National Science Council. He is a distinguished research fellow
of Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica from 2012 to 2017.
Prof. Lee has received many international as well as national awards, including the Toray
Science Foundation Fellow, the Terris Moore Award in space physics, the Outstanding Faculty
Performance Award, the Fullbright Scholar Award, the Emil Usibelli Distinguished ResearchAward, the Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship Award, the Ministryof Education's Outstanding Academic Award, The Presidential Science Prize (The highest
honor in science in Taiwan), Academician of Academia Sinica, Elected Member of theAcademy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), Elected Member of International
Academy of Astronautics (IAA), Elected Member of International Academy of Engineering,Russian Academy of Engineering (IAE), and Subramanyan Chandrasekhar Prize of Plasma
Physics (AAPPS-DPP), 2017.
Prof. Lee is a well-known space physicist. He has published more than 300 scientificpapers as well as three academic monographs. During his career, Prof. Lee developed severalnew theories to explain observed space phenomena. His major research achievements include:(a) the turbulence spectrum of interstellar medium, (b) the cyclotron maser theory for thegeneration of auroral kilometric radiation, (c) the multiple X-line reconnection model formagnetic flux transfer events, (d) the formation mechanism of solar prominences, (e) a newmechanism for solar coronal heating, and (f) the discovery of "gigantic jets" in the Earth’s
upper atmosphere.