Yang Hung-duen
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Yang Hung-duen | |
|---|---|
| 楊弘敦 | |
.jpg) Yang in 2014 | |
| Minister of Science and Technology | |
| In office 20 May 2016 – 7 February 2017 | |
| Deputy | Tsai Mi-ching, Chiu Jeng-jiann |
| Vice | Chen Ter-shing |
| Preceded by | Shyu Jyuo-min |
| Succeeded by | Chen Liang-gee |
| President of National Sun Yat-sen University | |
| In office October 2008 – 19 May 2016 | |
| Preceded by | Chang Tsung-jen (張宗仁) |
| Succeeded by | Wu Chi-hua (吳濟華) |
| Deputy Minister of National Science Council of the Republic of China | |
| In office 2006–2008 | |
| Minister | Maw-Kuen Wu Chen Chien-jen Lee Lou-chuang |
| Preceded by | Liao Chun-cheng (廖俊臣) |
| Succeeded by | Lih-Juann Chen |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 3 September 1965 (age 60) |
| Education | National Taiwan Normal University (BS) Iowa State University (PhD) |
Yang Hung-duen (traditional Chinese: 楊弘敦; simplified Chinese: 杨弘敦; pinyin: 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.
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".[1]
