Yeukuang Hwu

Yeukuang Hwu received the Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1992. He is a Distinguished Research Fellow with the Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, and a Professor of Engineering Science with National Cheng Kung University and the Brain Research Center and Engineering Science and System, National Tsing Hua University. He is also the Founder of the International Project Synchrotron for Neuroscience–an Asia-Pacific Strategic Enterprise (SYNAPSE). He is an Expert in the use of synchrotron radiation and free electron lasers for spectroscopy, spectromicroscopy, x-ray imaging, x-ray scattering, and nanofabrication.