Distinguished Visiting Scholars

Year
2024/25

Professor Jacob Soll

University of Southern California

Visitation: Mar 2025 Discipline: Philosophy, History and Accounting

Lecture Topics:

Accounting for Culture: How the Dutch Created the First Modern Path to Wealth 1500-1800

A Royal Road to Wealth: How Monsieur Colbert Built the First Large-Scale Modern Market

Year
2023/24

Professor Andrew T. CHAN

Harvard Medical School

Visitation: Feb 2024 Discipline: Medicine

Lecture Topics:

Aspirin and Prevention of Cancer Diet, the Gut Microbiome, and Human Health

Year
2022/23

Professor Shui-Yan TANG

Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California

Visitation: Mar 2023 Discipline: Public Policy and Management

Lecture Topics:

How to Think about Institutions, Behavior, and Governance How Macro-Institutional Contexts Constrain Environmental Governance: Comparing the United States and China

Year
2022/23

Professor CHEN Runsheng

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Visitation: Oct 2022 Discipline: Biology

Lecture Topics:

AI and Big data in Precision Medicine COVID Vaccines and Nucleic Acid Drugs

Year
2021/22

Professor Masayuki SATO

Department of Philosophy, Taiwan University

Visitation: Oct 2021 Discipline: Philosophy

Lecture Topics:

The Development of Xunzi Studies for the Past 300 Years in Japan and its Contemporary Significance Xunzi and "Mr. Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals" during the Era of the Transformation of Political Order among the Warring States

Year
2019/20

Professor Stephen FIGLEWSKI

New York University Stern School of Business

Visitation: Oct 2019 Discipline: Business

Lecture Topics:

Volatility and Stock Options Extracting Market Expectations and Risk Premia from Stock Index Options

Year
2018/19

Professor Paul PHAROAH

University of Cambridge

Visitation: Nov 2018 Discipline: Medicine

Lecture Topics:

Understanding why cancer tends to run in families? Are we ready for genetic testing in the populations?

Year
2017/18

Professor Erkko AUTIO

Imperial College Business School, London

Visitation: Oct 2017 Discipline: Business

Lecture Topics:

Digitalisation, entrepreneurship, and the economy of the future What does internationlization mean in the digital age?

Year
2016/17

Professor Steven CHU

Stanford University

Visitation: Oct 2016 Discipline: Physics

Lecture Topics:

A Random Walk in Science Energy, Climate Change and Low Cost Path Forward

Year
2015/16

Professor Inez FUNG

University of California, Berkeley, USA

Visitation: Oct 2015 Discipline: Atmospheric Sciences

Lecture Topics:

CO2 Life Fantastic: The Global Carbon Cycle Plants, Water and Climate

Year
2014/15

Professor David C GEARY

University of Missouri

Visitation: Oct 2014 Discipline: Psychology

Lecture Topics:

Early Predictors of Mathematics Achievement and Achievement Growth Evolution of Trait Vulnerability

Year
2013/14

Professor Shu CHIEN

University of California

Visitation: Oct 2013 Discipline: Medicine/Engineering

Lecture Topics:

Perspectives in Biology, Medicine and Engineering Interplays between Biology - Medicine - Engineering and Humanities - Societies

Year
2012/13

Professor CHEN Yuan-tsong

Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Visitation: Nov 2012 Discipline: Medicine

Lecture Topics:

Preventing Drug Toxicity with a Gene Test Challenges of New Drug Development: From Laboratory to Clinic to Hollywood

Year
2011/12

Professor Herman S. CHEUNG

University of Miami

Visitation: Oct 2011 Discipline: Medicine

Lecture Topics:

Advances and challenges of stem cell-based regenerative medicine Can entrepreneurship co-exist with academia research?

Year
2010/11

Professor Sam GLUCKSBERG

Princeton University

Visitation: Oct 2010 Discipline: Psychology

Lecture Topics:

Moral Hazards and Media Hazards: How Metaphors Shape Thought and Social Policy

Year
2010/11

Professor Kay DEAUX

City University of New York

Visitation: Oct 2010 Discipline: Psychology

Lecture Topics:

To Be an Immigrant: Changing Places and Faces

Year
2008/09

Professor QIN Dahe

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Visitation: Oct 2008 Discipline: Meteorology

Lecture Topics:

Global warming and the socio-economic development of China

Weather hazards in a changing climate and their relevance to China's sustainability

The first Chinese at South Pole: Global warming from the perspective of polar exploration

Year
2007/08

Professor ZHANG Yaping

Kunming Institute of Zoology, CAS

Visitation: Nov 2007 Discipline: Zoology

Lecture Topics:

The origin and evolution history of Chinese: insight from DNA

Mitochondrial population genomics of Asian

Year
2006/07

Professor YUAN Longping

China National Hybrid Rice R&D Center

Visitation: Mar 2007 Discipline: Biology

Lecture Topics:

Progress in Breeding of Super Hybrid Rice

Year
2006/07

Professor F Sherwood ROWLAND

University of California (Irvine), USA

Visitation: Oct 2006 Discipline: Chemistry

Lecture Topics:

Stratospheric Ozone Depletion

Greenhouse Gases, Global Warming and Climate Change

Year
2005/06

Professor Stanley N COHEN

Stanford University, USA

Visitation: Nov 2005 Discipline: Medicine

Lecture Topics:

Knowledge and Fear of Knowledge: Dual Legacies of the New Genetics

Discovering and Inactivating Host Cell Genes Exploited by Infectious Microbes

Year
2005/06

Professor Peter C ORDESHOOK

California Institute of Technology, USA

Visitation: Mar 2006 Discipline: Political Science

Lecture Topics:

Theoretical Underpinnings of Constitutional Design for New Democracies

The Uses and Misuses of Game Theory in Political Science

Year
2004/05

Professor Michael C CORBALLIS

University of Auckland, New Zealand

Visitation: Feb 2005 Discipline: Psychology

Lecture Topics:

Where did language come from?

Why is our right brain different from our left brain?

Year
2004/05

Professor Yuk-ling YUNG

California Institute of Technology, USA

Visitation: Oct 2004 Discipline: Planetary Science

Lecture Topics:

Are We Alone in the Universe? Did the Sunspot Cycle Cause the Fall of the Ming Dynasty?

Year
2003/04

Professor QIAN Zeng-yi

Shandong University, PRC

Visitation: Mar 2004 Discipline: Chinese Language

Lecture Topics:

Man Tan Fang Yang. Fan Yan Xie

Year
2003/04

Professor DONG Zhi-an

Shandong University, PRC

Visitation: Mar 2004 Discipline: Chinese Language

Lecture Topics:

漫談我國古代典籍的保存與古文獻學的學科建設

Year
2002/03

Professor Tony F. CHAN

University of California (LA), USA

Visitation: Nov 2002 Discipline: Mathematics

Lecture Topics:

Geometry, PDEs, Fluid Dynamics and Image Processing

What's Math got to do with it?

Year
2002/03

Professor Yuan T LEE

Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Visitation: Mar 2003 Discipline: Chemistry

Lecture Topics:

Global Trends in Educational Reform Molecular Beams/Chemical Dynamics

Year
2001/02

Professor Richard J. ESTES

University of Pennsylvania, USA

Visitation: Mar 2002 Discipline: Social Work

Lecture Topics:

Trends in World Social Development: Implications for Hong Kong and Other Well-Off Societies

Threats to World Social Development: Obstacles and Opportunities at the Beginning of a New Century

Year
2001/02

Professor M. Frederick HAWTHORNE

University of California (LA), USA

Visitation: Nov 2001 Discipline: Chemistry

Lecture Topics:

Roles of Boron Chemistry in Medicine

Why I Chose Chemistry?

Year
2000/01

Professor Paul. M. VANHOUTTE

Institut de Recherches Internationale Server, France

Visitation: Mar 2001 Discipline: Medicine

Lecture Topics:

From Gas to Intercellular Message: Nitric Oxide

Drug Discovery: The Ultimate Pharmacological Challenge

Year
2000/01

Professor Kenneth A. DODGE

Duke University, USA

Visitation: Nov 2000 Discipline: Psychology

Lecture Topics:

How Aggressive Behavior Develops in Children and Adolescents

The Prevention of Chronic Violence in Adolescents

Year
1999/00

Professor Janice M. MORSE

University of Alberta, Canada

Visitation: Nov 1999 Discipline: Nursing

Lecture Topics:

The Contribution of Qualitative Inquiry to Health Care Research

The Hope Project Research to Understand, Assess and Intervene

Is There Anything New to Learn about Suffering?

Year
1999/00

Professor Arthur B. ELLIS

University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Visitation: Feb 2000 Discipline: Material Science

Lecture Topics:

Customizing Materials for the 21st Century

Teaching Science and Engineering through Materials Science

Year
1998/99

Professor Harry HARDING

The George Washington University, USA

Visitation: Mar 1999 Discipline: Political Science

Lecture Topics:

The U.S. and Asia: Trans-Pacific Relations Towards a New Century – Security

The U.S. and Asia: Trans-Pacific Relations Towards a New Century – Economics

Year
1998/99

Professor Marilyn S. ALBERT

Harvard Medical School, USA

Visitation: Oct 1998 Discipline: Psychology

Lecture Topics:

Cognitive Change in Normal Aging

Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementing Disorders

Correlates of Cognitive Function in Relation to Aging and Dementia: A Review of Findings on MRI, qEEG, PET, SPEC and MRI

Year
1997/98

Professor John W. REPS

Cornell University, USA

Visitation: Mar 1998 Discipline: Architecture

Lecture Topics:

Canberra 1912: Lost Plans and Forgotten Contestants of an International Planning Competition

Making the American Capital: The Planning and Development of Washington, D.C.

Cutting Down the Hills and Pushing Back the Sea: American Experience with Reclaiming Land for Development

Year
1997/98

Dr. David Da-i HO

Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, USA

Visitation: Dec 1997 Discipline: Medicine

Lecture Topics:

The AIDS Epidemic and Prospects for Control

Year
1996/97

Dr. Leroy CHIAO

NASA Space Center, USA

Visitation: Nov 1996 Discipline: Space Science

Lecture Topics:

My Experiences as a NASA Astronaut

Year
1996/97

Professor Gillian BROWN

Cambridge University, UK

Visitation: Mar 1997 Discipline: English Language

Lecture Topics:

English as an International Language - What Does It Mean?

Developments of Listening Comprehension in the Last Thirty Years

Interpretation and Context

Year
1996/97

Professor Chia-ying YEH

University of British Columbia, Canada

Visitation: Oct 1996 Discipline: Chinese Language

Lecture Topics:

The Development of the Song Lyric from Five Dynasties to C'hing Dynasty

Attitudes Toward the Song Lyric During the C'hing Dynasty

Major Song Lyric Writers of C'hing Dynasty

Year
1995/96

Professor Shupeng CHEN

Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Visitation: Mar 1996 Discipline: Science

Lecture Topics:

Current Remote Sensing Applications in China

Geo-informatics for Regional Modeling Analysis

Coastal Zone and its Sustainable Development

Year
1995/96

Professor Graham J. FISHBURNE

University of Alberta, Canada

Visitation: Nov 1995 Discipline: Education

Lecture Topics:

Key Teaching Behaviours for Effective University Teaching

Ideas to Enhance Teacher Development at the University Level

Developmentally Appropriate Physical Education for Children

Year
1994/95

Professor Feng-sheng HE

Institute of Occupational Medicine, PRC

Visitation: Nov 1994 Discipline: Medicine

Lecture Topics:

Chemical Toxicity on the Nervous System Recognition and Prevention

"Biomarkers" in Monitoring Occupational and Environmental Chemical Exposure

Current Global Needs in Occupational Health

Year
1994/95

Professor James CAHILL

University of California, USA

Visitation: Mar 1995 Discipline: Art History

Lecture Topics:

Poetic Painting in Sung-dynasty China

Poetic Painting in Late Ming China

Poetic Painting in Edo-period Japan

Year
1993/94

Professor Janos KORNAI

Harvard University, USA

Visitation: Mar 1994 Discipline: Finance

Lecture Topics:

The Evolution of Financial Discipline in Postsocialist Transition

Transformational Recession

Year
1993/94

Professor Sidney GREENBAUM

University College London, UK

Visitation: Nov 1993 Discipline: English Language

Lecture Topics:

English as an International Language

Corpus Linguistics

The English Language in Britain Today

Year
1992/93

Professor Richard PORTES

University of London, UK

Visitation: Mar 1993 Discipline: Economics

Lecture Topics:

A Difficult Departure

Proposals for Progress

Year
1992/93

Professor Kwang-chung YU

Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Visitation: Feb 1993 Discipline: Chinese Language

Lecture Topics:

杖底煙霞－中國山水遊記的藝術

藝術的美與醜

Year
1991/92

Professor Jonathan SPENCE

Yale University, USA

Visitation: Mar 1992 Discipline: History

Lecture Topics:

China in the West: Coming to Terms with the New

China in the West: System Building and Imagination

Year
1991/92

Professor B. SCHLESINGER

University of Toronto, Canada

Visitation: Oct 1991 Discipline: Social Work

Lecture Topics:

One Parent Families in Cross-Cultural Perspectives

The Sandwich Generation: Three Stresses and Satisfactions

Families That Last

Year
1990/91

Professor Wlodzimierz BRUS

Oxford University, UK

Visitation: Nov 1990 Discipline: Sociology / Economics

Lecture Topics:

Concept: Marxist Claim to Superiority

Reality: Experience of Eastern Europe

Prospects: Reformor Replacement?

Year
1989/90

Professor Jan. SVARTVIK

Lund University, Sweden

Visitation: Nov 1989 Discipline: English Language

Lecture Topics:

Is There a Place for Grammar in a Communicative Approach to Language Teaching?

On the Study of Spoken English

Corpus Linguistics: The Compilation, Distribution and Use of Machine-Readable Texts in the English Language

Year
1988/89

Professor Robin M. NORRIS

Auckland University, New Zealand

Visitation: Nov 1988 Discipline: Medicine

Lecture Topics:

Coronary Heart Disease: A Changing Perspective

Acute Myocardial Infraction: A Disease of the Twentieth Century

Disorders of Function due to Myocardial Ischaemia: Myocardial Stunning and Postsystolic Shortening

Year
1988/89

Professor Ky FAN

University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Visitation: Apr 1989 Discipline: Mathematics

Lecture Topics:

Game Theory and its Influences

Analytic Functions of Linear Operators

Convexity Theorems in Fixed Point Theory

Year
1987/88

Professor Norton GINSBURG

East-West Center, USA

Visitation: Jan 1988 Discipline: Geography

Lecture Topics:

Precepts and Problems Regarding American Cities

Emerging Regions of Rural-Urban Interaction in Asia

Peking and Tientsin: The Problem of Water Supply in Chinese Cities

Year
1986/87

Professor K.C. CHANG

Harvard University, USA

Visitation: Sep 1986 Discipline: Archaeology

Lecture Topics:

Art of the Chinese Bronze Age

Shamanism and Politics in Ancient China

A New Paradigm For the Rise of Civilizations

Year
1986/87

Professor Shing-shen CHERN

Nankai University, PRC

Visitation: Nov 1986 Discipline: Mathematics

Lecture Topics:

What is Geometry?

My Teaching Experience: Development of Mathematics in China in the Past Sixty Years

Differential Geometry and Theoretical Physics

Year
1986/87

Dr. Franklin CHANG-DIAZ

NASA Plasma Fusion Center, USA

Visitation: Nov 1986 Discipline: Space Science

Lecture Topics:

Space Shuttle Program

Year
1985/86

Professor Lawrence J. LAU

Stanford University, USA

Visitation: Mar 1986 Discipline: Economics

Lecture Topics:

Relationships Among Macro Variables

Identifying the Parts From the Sum

Models of Macro and Micro Behavior

Year
1984/85

Professor Peng-yuan CHANG

Taiwan Normal university, Taiwan

Visitation: Apr 1985 Discipline: History

Lecture Topics:

近代中國的政治領導階層

Year
1984/85

Professor Samuel FINER

Oxford University, UK

Visitation: Dec 1984 Discipline: Political Science

Lecture Topics:

Intervention

Power

Abdication

Year
1983/84

Professor Ezra VOGEL

Harvard University, USA

Visitation: Jan 1983 Discipline: Sociology

Lecture Topics:

The Recent Rise of Japan

The World's Response to Japan's Rise

The New Stage of Industrial Societies

Year
1982/83

Professor Stuart SCHRAM

University of London, UK

Visitation: Apr 1982 Discipline: History

Lecture Topics:

The Apprenticeship of a Revolutionary

A Quarter Century of Achievement

The Final Phase: From Apotheosis to Oblivion

Year
1981/82

Professor C.N. YANG

State University of N.Y, USA

Visitation: Jan 1982 Discipline: Physics

Lecture Topics:

Symmetry and th Physics of the Twentieth Century

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