B.S., National Tsing Hua University (1993)

M.S., National Tsing Hua University (1995)

Ph.D., National Tsing Hua University (2002)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Rice University (2002–2004)

Assistant Research Fellow, IAMS, Academia Sinica (2005–)

Joint Appointment Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University (2007–)

Development of general molecule cooling and trapping techniques

Studies of further molecule cooling schemes such as sympathetic cooling and evaporative cooling to reach ultracold regime (sub-uK)

Studies of ultracold molecule collisions and reactions.

Studies of condensed-maner physics with dipolar, molecular gases in ultracold regime

“Observation of the Quantum Interference Phenomenon Induced by Interacting Dark Resonances”, Y. C. Chen et al., Phys. Rev. A 64, 053806 (2001).

“Using Absorption Imaging to Study Ion Dynamics in an Ultracold Neutral Plasma”, C. E. Simien and Y. C. Chen et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 143001 (2004). 

“Electron Screening and Kinetic-energy Oscillations in a Strongly Coupled Plasma”, Y. C. Chen et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 265003 (2004). 

“Absorption Imaging and Spectroscopy of Ultracold Neutral Plasma”, T. C. Killian and Y. C. Chen et al., J. Phys. B 38, S351 (2005). 

“Photoassociative Spectroscopy at Long Range in Ultracold Strontium”, S. B. Nagel and Y. C. Chen et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 083004 (2005).