Shi-Wei Chu, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Physics
Vice President of Student Affairs
National Taiwan University
Hosted by Lingyan Shi
Seminar Information
The Nobel Laureate Sydney Brenner once said: "Progress of science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order." In the past decade, I have been working on the development of novel optical microscopy, toward the discovery in neuroscience and nanoscience. On neuroscience, together with partners in brain tech project, we focus on enhancing contrast, resolution, speed, and depth, aiming to capture the communication signals among every single neuron in a living brain to understand consciousness. On nanoscience, we aim to push the optical resolution limit for semiconductor inspection, through the unusual combination of laser scannning microscopy and photothermal nonlinear light-matter interactions, including recently discovered optical bistability.
Shi-Wei Chu received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering (1999) and PhD degree in Photonics and Optoelectronics (2004) from National Taiwan University (NTU). He joined NTU Physics in 2006, promoted to associate professor and full professor in 2010 and 2014, respectively. In NTU, he had served as an Associate Director (2012-2016) and Deputy Director (2019-2021) in the Center of Teaching and Learning Development, the Deputy Director of the NTU Molecular Imaging Center, Vice Dean of NTU D.School, and now he serves as the Vice President of Student Affairs. Externally, he serves as the Associate Director for Innovative Imaging Technologies in NTHU Brain Research Center, the Board of Directors in the Taiwan Physical Society (2020-2024), and on the Editorial Board of Biophysical Reports. His research interest lies in developing novel optical microscopic tools for nanophotonics and biomedical applications. He received the Exploration Research Award of Pan Wen Yuan Foundation (2010), Young Scholars’ Creativity Award of the Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship (2015), Outstanding young scholar research project award from the Ministry of Science and Technology (2016-2020), and the MOST Future Technology Award (2020, 2023). Furthermore, he is devoted to teaching/mentoring, and his supervised students had received more than 70 paper awards. His efforts were recognized by the NTU Excellent Teaching Award (2009-2012, 2020-2024), Outstanding Teaching Award (2013), and Excellent Mentor Award (2015).