Chun-Chieh Wu (吳俊傑)

Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Taiwan University
NO 1., Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd , Taipei 106, Taiwan

Telephone & Facsimile: (886) 2-2363-2303
Email: cwutyphoon@ntu.edu.tw, WWW: http://typhoon.as.ntu.edu.tw

Education:
Graduate:Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D. in Meteorology, May 1993
Thesis under the supervision of Professor Kerry A. Emanuel on "Understanding hurricane movement using potential vorticity: A numerical model and an observational study."
Undergraduate: National Taiwan University, B.S. in Atmospheric Sciences, June 1986

Recent Positions:

Chair Professor
Department of Atmospheric Science, National Taiwan University
August 2020 to present

Guest Professor
Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute,The University of Tokyo
September 2025 to December 2025

Director
Center for Weather and Climate Disaster Research, National Taiwan University
June 2024 to present

Dean
College of Science, National Taiwan University
August 2019 to July 2025

Distinguished Professor
Department of Atmospheric Science, National Taiwan University
August 2009 to July 2020

Visiting Professor
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University
January 2019 to May 2019

Adjunct Senior Research Scientist
Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
October 2018 to June 2019

Director General
Department of Natural Sciences and Sustainable Development, Ministry of Science and Technology
September 2016 to August 2018

Associate Dean
College of Science, National Taiwan University
November 2013 to August 2016

Chairman
International Degree Program in Climate Change and Sustainable Development, College of Science, National Taiwan University
Octerber 2015 to August 2016

Chairman
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Taiwan University
August 2008 to July 2014

President/Vice President
Atmospheric Science Section, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS)
August 2009 to July 2013

Director
NTU Typhoon Research Center
January 2009 to December 2014

Professor
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Taiwan University
August 2000 to July 2009

Adjunct Senior Research Scientist
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
2004

Visiting Fellow
Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory /NOAA
January to July 2004 (on sabbatical leave from NTU)

Associate Professor
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Taiwan University
August 1994 to July 2000

Visiting Research Scientist
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton University /NOAA
August 1994 - November 1994; July to September 1995

Post-Doctoral Researcher
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton University /NOAA
August 1993 - July 1994

Professional Services
Director of  the Board, Chang Chau-Ting Memorial Foundation, 2024/01 - present
President, Chinese Geoscience Union in Taiwan, 2023/06 - present
Director of the Board, Wu Ta-You Foundation, 2022/06 - present
President, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), 2020/07 - 2024/06
Vice President, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), 2019/08 - 2020/06 ; 2024/07 - 2025/07
Member (Vice Chair), GRC (Union Commission on Geophysical Risk and Sustainability) Executive Committee, The International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), 11/2017 (07/2019) - present
Member, Steering Committee, Belmont Forum, 10/2017 - 10/2019
President, Meteorological Society of Republic of China (Taiwan), 2017/04 - 2021/03
Director of the Board/ Supervisor, National Synchrotron Radition Research Center (NSRRC), 2017/07 - 2018/08
Editor, Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences (APJAS) - Korean Meteorological Society (KMS), 2015/11 - 2016/12
Secretary General, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), 2016/08 - 2019/07
Assistant Secretary General, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), 2013/08 - 2016/07
Editor, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences (JAS) – American Meteorological Society (AMS), 2013/07 - 2018/12
Vice President, Meteorological Society of Republic of China, 2013/03 - 2017/03
Member, Committee on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones, American Meteorological Society, 2012/01 - 2017/12
Associate Editor, Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 2011/11 - 2013/12
President, Atmospheric Science Section, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, 2009/08 - 2013/07
Editor-in-Chief, Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 2009/08 - 2012/07
Advisory committee member, Atmos. Sci., Div. of Natural Sciences, National Science Council, 2008/01 - 2010/12
Editor, Terrestrial, Atmospheric, and Oceanic Sciences, Chinese Geoscience Union, 2005/08 - 2009/07
Chairman of panel committee, Atmos. Sci., Div. of Natural Sciences, National Science Council, 2005/01 - 2007/12
Principal Investigator, Priority Typhoon Research Project, National Science Council, 2002/08 - 2008/07
Associate Editor, Terrestrial, Atmospheric, and Oceanic Sciences, Chinese Geoscience Union, 2004/11 - 2005/07
Associate Editor, Monthly Weather Review, American Meteorological Society, 2002/01 - 2003/01
Chief Editor, Atmospheric Sciences, Meteorological Society of Republic of China, 2002/01 - 2003/12
Managing Editor, Terrestrial, Atmospheric, and Oceanic Sciences, Chinese Geoscience Union, 1997/06 - 2003/12
Panel committee member, Atmos. Sci., Div. of Natural Sciences, National Science Council, 2002/01 - 2007/12

Honor and Awards:
National Chair Professorship, Ministry of Education, 2025 (The second time)
Principal Investigator, Academic Summit Program, National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), 2024 - 2029
Eminent Visiting Professor, Institute of Multidisciplinary Science (IMS), Yokohama National University, Japan, 2023
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2021 Editor’s Citation for Excellence in Refereeing, 2022
Principal Investigator, Science Vanguard Research Program, Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), 2020 - 2024
Principal Investigator, Project for MOST research fellow, Ministry of Science and Technology, 2017 - 2020
National Chair Professorship, Ministry of Education, 2017
Fellow, American Meteorological Society (AMS), 2017
Editor’s Award for the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, American Meteorological Society (AMS), 2014
The Academic Award, Ministry of Education, 2013
Principal Investigator, Science Vanguard Research Program, National Science Council (NSC), 2013 - 2017
Fellow, Meteorological Society of Republic of China, 2013
50 Scientific Achievements, National Science Council (NSC) 50th Anniversary, 2009
Gold Bookmarker Prize, 2008
--Wu Ta-You Popular Science Book Prize in Translation, Wu Ta-You Foundation
Outstanding Teaching Award, National Taiwan University, 2008
Outstanding Scholar Research Program, National Science Council, 2009
Outstanding Research Award, National Science Council,(three times: 2007, 2009, 2012)
Research Achievement Award, National Taiwan Univ., 2004
University Teaching Award, National Taiwan University, 2003, 2006, 2007
Academia Sinica Research Award for Junior Researchers, 2001