Brief Bio: Dr. Mei-Yin Chou works in the field of theoretical condensed matter physics, with her research focusing on the electronic properties of novel materials of fundamental and technological interest. In the past few decades, she has established herself as one of the leading figures in first-principles electronic-structure calculations. Dr. Chou received her Ph.D. in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1986. After working for Exxon Research and Engineering Company in New Jersey as a postdoctoral fellow, she accepted a faculty position at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1989, earning promotion to Associate Professor in 1993 and to Professor in 1998. In addition, she served as the ADVANCE Professor of Science at Georgia Tech from 2002-2006, and Chair of the School of Physics from 2005-2010. She became a Distinguished Research Fellow of the Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences at Academia Sinica in January 2011, and an Adjunct Professor at National Taiwan University in August of the same year. She served as Director of the Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences in 2011-2016 and was appointed Vice President of Academia Sinica in September 2016.

Dr. Chou was a recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship from 1990 to 1992, the David and Lucile Packard Fellowship from 1990 to 1995, and the Presidential Young Investigator Award from National Science Foundation from 1991 to 1996. In addition, she was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2002, and Academician of Academia Sinica in 2014, while earning the Taiwan Outstanding Woman Scientist Award in 2013. Dr. Chou has organized several important international conferences in the U.S. as well as in Taiwan, and has served on the editorial board of the UK journal Reports on Progress in Physics since 2008. She was also elected to serve as an officer in the Division of Computational Physics of the American Physical Society (APS), first as Secretary/Treasurer and later as Chair of the Division in 2008.

E-mail: mychou6@gate.sinica.edu.tw