B.S., National Taiwan University (1983)

Ph.D., Stanford University (1990)

Postdoctoral Fellow, AT&T Bell Laboratories (1990–1993)

Assistant Research Fellow, IAMS, Academia Sinica (1993–1995)

Associate Research Fellow, IAMS, Academia Sinica (1995–2001)

Research Fellow, IAMS, Academia Sinica (2001–)

Joint Appointment Professor, Department of Physics, National Taiwan Normal University (1995–)

Joint Appointment Professor, Institute of Polymer Sciences and Engineering, National Taiwan University (2003–)

TOF (time of flight), morphology of polymer involving small angle x-ray, near field optics, and photo-thermal method

Single molecule spectroscopy

Protein folding and protein-DNA interaction utilizing the micro-fluid device and confocal microscopy and fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) method

" Illumination of exciton migration in rodlike luminescent conjugated polymers by single-molecule spectroscopy", C. F. Wang and W. S. Fann et al., Phys. Rev. B 67, 035202 (2003).  

" Disorder controlled hole transport in MEH-PPV", A. R. Inigo and W. Fann et al., Phys. Rev. B 69, 075201 (2004).

"Enhanced hole mobility in poly(2-methoxy-5-(2 '-ethylhexoxy)-1,4-phenylenevinylene) by elimination of nanometer-sized domains" (vol 17, pg 1835, 2005), A. R. Inigo and W. Fann et al., Adv. Mater. 17, 2147 (2005).

"Conformation and energy transfer in a single luminescent conjugated polymer", W. Y. Sun and W. S. Fann et al., Macromolecules 38, 2966 (2005). 

"Heterogeneous energy landscapes of individual luminescent conjugated polymers", J. J. Liang and W. S. Fann et al., Phys. Rev. B 74, 085209 (2006). 

"Characterization and applications of single fluorescent nanodiamonds as cellular biomarkers", Chi-Cheng Fu and  Wunshain Fann et al., Proceeding of National Academic of Sciences, USA, 104, 727 (2007).