European-Taiwanese Association for Science and Technology e. V.

Prof. Dr. Jian-Jia Chen 陳建佳

Chair (Vorsitzender)

is Chair Professor of Design Automation for Embedded Systems of Faculty of Informatics (Computer Science) at TU Dortmund since April 2014. He started his European Journey in 2008 as a Postdoc at ETH Zurich, followed by Juniorprofessorship at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in 2010. He received the ERC Consolidator Award in 2019. He was elected as the chair of the executive board with a vision to provide suitable means for Taiwanese scholars and researchers to sustainably integrate into European society.

Prof. Dr. Chih-Jen Shih 施智仁

General Officer (Generalsekretär)

is Professor of Chemical Engineering in Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He received bachelor and Ph.D degrees from National Taiwan University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, respectively, before coming to Europe in 2015. He has received the Victor K. Lamer Award from the American Chemical Society, the Ruzicka Preis from the Swiss Chemical Society, and the ERC starting grant from the European Research Council.

Dr.-Ing. Kuan-Hsun Chen 陳冠旬

Board member (Vorstandmitglieder & IT beauftragter)

is a tenured assistant professor (UD1) in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Twente, in the Netherlands since 2021. He was a Postdoc for the Faculty of Informatics at TU Dortmund University, in Germany. He earned his Ph.D. degree (Dr.-Ing.) with the highest distinction (Summa cum laude) with a dissertation award from TU Dortmund in 2019. His EU journey started in 2013 with Prof. Dr. Jian-Jia Chen from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany.

Dr. Zhan-Hong Lin

Board member (Vorstandmitglieder)

is originally from Taiwan, obtained his B.S. degree from National Cheng Kung University and his M.S. degree from National Tsing Hua University. He worked as a research assistant in the Nanophotonics Device Laboratory located in the Research Center for Applied Sciences at Academia Sinica. In July 2017, he started his Ph.D. studies at the Department of Nanophotonics in Leibniz-Institut für Photonische Technologien, Germany, under the supervision of Dr. Jer-Shing Huang and Prof. Dr. Jürgen Popp. His research focuses on plasmon-enhanced spectroscopy and the optical properties of fluorescent microspheres, especially on enhanced chiral light-matter interactions at the nanoscale and modulated whispering gallery modes within microcavities. In 2023, he received his Ph.D. from Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena and then joined the group of Prof. Chih-Jen Shih at ETH Zürich.

PD Dr. habil. Jer-Shing HUANG 黃哲勳

Dr. Jer-Shing Huang is the head of the Research Department of Nanooptics at the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (Leibniz-IPHT). He is also an adjunct professor at the Department of Electrophysics at National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) and an adjunct research fellow at the Research Center for Applied Sciences (RCAS) at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. Before 2016, he was an associate professor at the Department of Chemistry of National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of ACS Photonics and SPIE Visiting Lecturer.

Dr. Sara Hsin-Yi Yang 楊欣怡 

serves since January 2022 as consultant physician (Oberärztin) and director of the Division of Dermatopathology within the Department of Dermatology at the University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein in Lübeck, Germany. 

She was born and raised in Taiwan. Upon receiving her bachelor’s degree from National Taiwan University, Dr. Yang moved to Germany to pursue her medical education. She was admitted to several renowned German medical schools, including LMU in Munich and Charité in Berlin. She decided to study in Heidelberg at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, where she graduated in 2009. 

She is a board certified dermatologist subspecialized in dermatopathology and dermatological surgery. She completed her residency training in Switzerland and Germany, as well as subspecialty training in the United States. 

Dr. Yang enjoys teaching medical students and residents. She has published numerous journal articles and is known among colleagues for her well-received talks in both English and German languages. Her research interests focus mainly on clinical dermatology and dermatopathology.