E-mail mychou6@gate.sinica.edu.tw Office R365 Tel. of office +886-2-2366-8234 Laboratory R422 Tel. of Lab. +886-2-2366-8272
Education
B.S., Physics, 1980, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
M.S., Physics, 1983, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Ph.D., Physics, 1986, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Experience
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of California, Berkeley (1980 – 1981)
Graduate Research Assistant, University of California, Berkeley (1981 – 1986)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Exxon Research and Engineering Company (1986 – 1988)
Assistant Professor, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology (1989 – 1993)
Associate Professor, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology (1993 – 1998)
Professor, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology (1998 – 2015)
ADVANCE Professor of Science, Georgia Institute of Technology (2002 – 2006)
Chair, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology (2005 – 2010)
Director, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (2011 - 2016)
Adjunct Professor, Department of Physics, National Taiwan University (2011 - present)
Vice President, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (2016 - present)
Research Interests
Computational materials physics
Theoretical condensed matter physics
Electronic and structural properties of solids, surfaces, interfaces, and clusters
Honors, Awards, and Recognitions
Earle C. Anthony Fellowship, University of California, USA (1980 – 1981)
Victor F. Lenzen Memorial Scholarship, University of California, USA (1982 –1984)
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, USA (1990 – 1992)
David and Lucile Packard Fellowship, USA (1990 – 1995)
Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation, USA (1991 – 1996)
Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA (1993)
Institute Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA (1994 – 1999)
Fellow, American Physical Society, USA (2002)
College of Sciences Ralph and Jewel Gretzinger Moving Forward School Award, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA (2009)
Outstanding Taiwan Woman Scientist Award, 2013
Outstanding Referee, American Physical Society Journals, 2013
Academician, Academia Sinica, 2014
Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) , 2019
Selected Publications
"Structural and Electronic Properties of Oxidized Graphene," Jia-An Yan, Lede Xian, and M. Y. Chou, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 086802/1-4 (2009).
"Effects of Metallic Contacts on Electron Transport through Graphene," S. Barraza-Lopez, M. Vanevic, M. Kindermann, and M. Y. Chou, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 076807/1-4 (2010).
"Quantum Size Effects on the Work Function of Metallic Thin-Film Nanostructures," J. Kim, S. Qin, W. Yao, Q. Niu, M. Y. Chou, and C.-K. Shih, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 107, 12761-12765 (2010).
"Lattice Vibrational Modes and their Frequency Shifts in Semiconductor Nanowires," L. Yang and M. Y. Chou, Nano Lett. 11, 2618-2621 (2011).
"Charge Transport through Graphene Junctions with Wetting Metal Leads," S. Barraza-Lopez, M. Kindermann, and M. Y. Chou, Nano Lett. 12, 3424-3430 (2012).
"Fractal Landau-Level Spectra in Twisted Bilayer Graphene," Z. F. Wang, F. Liu, and M. Y. Chou, Nano Lett. 12, 3833- 3838 (2012).
"Coupled Dirac Fermions and Neutrino-like Oscillations in Twisted Bilayer Graphene,” L. Xian, Z. Wang, and M. Y. Chou, Nano Lett. 13, 5159-5164 (2013).
"Determination of Band Alignment in the Single Layer MoS2/WeS2 Heterojunction," M.-H. Chiu, C. Zhang, H.-W. Shiu, C.-P. Chuu, C.-H. Chen, C.-Y. S. Chang, C.-H. Chen, M. Y. Chou, C.-K. Shih and L.-J. Li, Nature Communications 6, 7666/1-6 (2015).
"Hidden order and dimensional crossover of the charge density waves in TiSe2," P. Chen, Y.-H. Chan, X.-Y. Fang, S.-K. Mo, Z. Hussain, A.-V. Fedorov, M.Y. Chou, and T.-C. Chiang, Scientific Reports 6, 37910/1-7 (2016).
"Band gap renormalization and work function modulation in MoSe2/hBN/Ru(0001) heterostructures," Q. Zhang, Y. Chen, C. Zhang, C.-R. Pan, M. Y. Chou, C. Zeng, and C.-K. Shih, Nature Communications 7, 13843 (2016).
"Interlayer Couplings, Moiré Patterns, and 2D Electronic Superlattices in MoS2/WSe2 Hetero-bilayers", C. Zhang, C.-P. Chuu, X. Ren, M.-Y. Li, L.-J. Li, C. Jin, M. Y. Chou, and C.-K. Shih, Science Advances 3, e16001459 (2017).
