Yang Hung-duen (p=Yáng Hóngdūn; born 3 September 1965) is a Taiwanese physicist. Yang was the president of National Sun Yat-sen University from 2008 to 2016, when he was selected to lead the National Science and Technology Council.
Education
Yang graduated from National Taiwan University with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in physics, then completed doctoral studies in the United States at Iowa State University, where he earned his Ph.D. in physics in 1987. His doctoral dissertation, completed under physicist Robert N. Shelton, was titled, "Superconductivity, magnetism, and charge density wave formation in ternary compounds with the scandium(5)cobalt(4)silicon(10)-type structure".
Academic career
After receiving his doctorate, he returned to Taiwan for a teaching position at National Sun Yat-sen University. He was a visiting professor at Wayne State University from 1999 to 2000.
Yang led the Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the National Science Council from 2001 to 2004, when he left for the Academia Sinica. He rejoined the NSC in 2006 as a deputy minister. In 2008, Yang was named President of National Sun Yat-sen University.
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