Education

• National Taiwan University, 1966-1970 B.S. in Chemistry
• Washington University, St Louis 1970-1975 Ph.D. in Chemistry

Positions

• 1975-1977 Postdoctoral Research, University of Oregon
• 1977-1978 Postdoctoral Research, Purdue University
• 1978-1982 Associate Professor at National Taiwan University
• 1982-2012 Professor at National Taiwan University
• 1983-1984 Visiting Scholar, University of Brussel, Belgium
• 1993-1995 Member, Education Reform Council, Taiwan
• 1995-Now Council member of the Chinese Chemical Society
• 1999-2001 Program manager of Chemistry Panel in National Science Council
• 2001-present Visiting professor at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
• 2004-2007 Chairman of Dept. of Chemistry at National Taiwan University
• 2002-2007 Advisor to the National Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Program
• 2012-2014 Deputy Minister, National Science Council
• 2012- present University Chair, National Taiwan University
• 2016- Academician of Academica Sinica
• 2017- president of Asia-Pacific Catalysis Society

Awards

• National Science Council Excellent Research Award (3 times, 1986, 1994,1996).
• Hou Chin-dui Foundation Research Award (1999).
• Research Foundation Professor (1998-2001).
• National Chair Professor (2000-2003).
• Plenary Lecture, Computational Researches in Nanoscience, WCTTC-2002, Taipei.
• Visiting Professor, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (2001-present).
• Visiting Professor, Xiamen University (2008).
• Chemistry Medal, Chinese Chemical Society, Taipei (2002)
• IUPAC Fellow, International, (1999- )
• Distinguished Researcher, National Science CouncilFellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC, since 2005)
• Keynote lecture, 4th Asia-Pacific Catalysis(APCAT4) Singapore, 2006
• Plenary lecture, Chinese Catalysis Conference, Lanzhou (2006)
• Cozzarelli Prize of the National Academy of Science of USA (2007 best paper in PNAS)
• University Chair Professor(2007-), National Taiwan University
• Y. Z. Hsu Yuan-Ze Chair Professor, 2008
• William Mong Nano Lectur, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2010)
• C.T. Chang(Natl Tsing hua University) Lecture Chair (2011)
• Visiting Professor, Fukuoka University (November-December 2014)
• TWAS(The World Academy of Sciences) -Chemistry Award (2014)
• Sam Weissman Lectureship, Washington University, St. Louis (2014)
• Academician, Academia Sinica (2016-)

Presentation interantional conferences (after 2010)

1. Keynote lecture, The 12th International Symposium for Chinese Inorganic Chemists, Taipei, Taiwan (2018)
2. Plenary Lecture, 中孔洞碳材料的合成及應用 第二屆臺灣碳材料學術研討會, Taipei, Taiwan (2018)
3. Keynote Lecture, Taiwan-Japan Nanomedicine Conference, Kobe, Japan (2018)
4. Plenary Lecture, Taiwan-Japan Catalysis Conference, Kyoto, Japan (2018)
5. Plenary Lecture, Chinese Chemical Society Annual meeting, Chia-yi (2017)
6. Keynote at Nanospace Conference, Shanghai (2017)
7. The annual 朱家驊紀念講座(2017)” Nanoscale, 7, 9614–9626 (2015)
8. The 6th AS Academician Visiting Lectureship, Chinese University of Hong Kong, April (2017)
9. Keynote presentation at 7th Asia-Pacific Congress on Catalysis, “Bio-mimic direct oxidation of alkane to alkanol at ambient condition”January (2017)
10. Keynote at MRS 2016 Fall meeting “Hollow Silica Nanospheres as Artificial intracellular Organelles” Boston (2016)
11. Lecture at Department of Chemistry, Tufts University December, 2016
12. Lecture at Department of Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles,“Bio-mimic supported copper catalyst for direct oxygen insertion to C-H bond under mild condition” December 5, 2016
13. The 7th Japan-Taiwan Symposium on Nanomedicine, Kyoto University ” Local pH tracking in living cells” (2016)
14. Keynote lecture at International Catalysis Congress, Beijing (2016) Chung-Yuan Mou, “Bio-mimic supported copper catalyst for direct oxygen insertion to C-H bond in Methane to form Methanol”
15. 7th Japan-Taiwan Joint Meeting on Neutron and X-ray Scattering, Yi-Qi Yeh, U-Ser Jeng and Chung-Yuan Mou, “Formation Mechanism of the Mesoporous Silica SBA-15 Thin Sheet with Perpendicular Nanochannels”
16. Keynote at IWOX-X(International Workshop on Oxide Surfaces) “Defect-Mediated Gold Substitution-Doping in ZnO Mesocrystals and its Catalysis in CO Oxidation” Ming-Han Liu, Yun-Wen Chen, Xiaoyan Liu, Jer-Lai Kuo, Ming-Wen Chu, and Chung-Yuan Mou†, Dalian, China 2016.
17. Keynote at IMMS-9 (9th International Meso and Microporous Society meeting)“Water Confined in Mesoporous silica” Brisbane, Australia 2015
18. Keynote at Taiwan-Japan on Nanomedicine ” Delivery of catalytic action to biological cells” Nankang 2015
19. Keynote at 15th Taiwan-Japan symposium on Catalysis “Direct oxygen insertion to C-H bond by mimicking copper enzymes” Kaoshiung, 2015
20. Invited Talk at Workshop on STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF SUPERCOOLED WATER AND OTHER GLASSY MATERIALS “Hydrophobic Solvation in Confined Water” Palermo, Italy 2015
21. Keynote lecture at 2014 MCASTA “The beauty and practical applications of bio-inspired materials design” St. Louis 2014
22. Sam Weissman Lecture Series“Nanoscale Therapeutics and Diagnostics” and “Mimicking Copper Enzymes” Washington University, St. Louis, 2014
23. Plenary Talk at 37th Symposium of Solution Chemistry of Japan “Hydrophobic Solvation in Confined Water”, Saga, Japan 2014
24. Visiting Scientist Lecture at NIMS(National Institute of Materials Science) “Mesoporous Silica as Nanocarrier and Diagnostics” Tsukuba, 2014
25. Visiting professor Lecture at Fukuoka University “Delivery of catalytic action to biological cells” 2014
26. Invited Talk at Japan-Taiwan Joint Workshop on Nanospace Materials “Hollow porous silica nanoparticle encapsulating enzyme, nanoparticle, and pH sensor” Fukuoka, 2014
27. Award Lecture at TWAS 25th Meeting, “Mesoporous Silica Materials” Sultannate of Oman October, 2014
28. Keynote at Taiwan-Japan bilateral meeting on Nanomedicine, “Nonviral Cell Labeling and Differentiation Agent for Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Based on Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles” 2014
29. Plenary at ISOMRM, 2014 “Interaction of Nanoparticles with Stem Cells for cell labeling and Differentiation” Taipei, Taiwan 2014
30. Keynote at Nanobubble2014 “Hydration of Xe and Enzyme in Confined Water”, Shanghai, 2014
31. Keynote at TOCAT7, “Strong Metal‐Support Interaction (SMSI) Effect over ZnO Supported Gold Nanocatalyst” Kyoto 2014
32. Plenary at CSCS-10 第十届海峡两岸催化交流会” Synthesis and Catalysis of Silica-Supported Gold Nanoparticles” Taipei, Taiwan, 2013
33. Keynote at MRS Spring meeting Session U, Catalytic Materials “Strong Metal-support Interaction between Gold Nanoparticles and ZnO Nanorods” 2012
34. University Chair Inauguration Lecture,“Biomimic Nanomaterials” National Taiwan University, April 27, 2012
35. Academia Sinica Interdeciplinary Lecture, “On Biomimic Nanomaterials” January, 2012
36. Invited Talk “Constructing biomimic structure” Center of Applied Science, Academia Sinica, Hualian, October 2, 2011
37. Invited talk “Bio-mineralization of porous single crystal” Kavali conference on “Growth of Hierarchical Functional Materials in Complex Fluids”, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Beijing, July, 5, 2011
38. Samuel I Weissman Lecture, Washington University, St. Louis, September, 2014
39. Invited talk, “Mesoporous silica nanoparticles: A platform for multifunctional biomedical carrier” IEEE NMDC 2013, Tainan, Taiwan
40. Plenary Lecture “Catalysis of Gold-based Nanocatalytic System” CSCS-10 (第十屆海峽兩岸催化學術會議) (2013)
41. Chairman of APCAT 6(6th Asia-Pacific Catalysis Congress) at Taipei (2013)
42. TWAS Award lecture “Mesoporous Silica Materials” Kingdom of Anman (October, 2014)
43. Keynote, “Enhanced Activity and Stability of Lysozyme confined in Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles” International Conference on water sciences, Beijing, April 14 – 17, 2014.
44. Keynote “Hollow porous silica nanoparticle encapsulating enzyme, nanoparticle, and pH sensor”Japan-Taiwan Joint Workshop on Nanospace Materials, Fukuoka (2014)
45. Keynote lecture, “Strong Metal‐Support Interaction (SMSI) Effect over ZnO Supported Gold Nanocatalyst” Kyoto, TOCAT7 (June, 2014)