Education and Positions

• Distinguished Research Fellow, Inst. Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica (2006~present)
• Adjunct Distinguished Research Fellow, Inst. Astronomy & Astrophysics, Academia Sinica (2006~present)
• Adjunct Professor, Inst. of Geology and Dept. of Physics, National Taiwan Univ. (1984~present)
• Director, Inst. Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica (2000~2004)
• Research Fellow (joint appointment), Inst. Astronomy & Astrophysics, Academia Sinica (1997~2006)
• Director, Preparatory Office, Inst. Astronomy & Astrophysics, Academia Sinica (1996~1997)
• Director, Preparatory Office, Inst. Astronomy & Astrophysics, Academia Sinica (1993~1994)
• Deputy Director, Inst. Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica (1987~1990)
• Research Fellow, Inst. Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica (1984~2005)
• Staff Member, Dept. Terrestrial Magnetism, Carneige Inst. Wash. DC (1979~1983)
• Robert McCormick Postdoctoral Fellow, Fermi Inst. of Nuclear Studies, Univ. of Chicago (1977~1979)
• Ph.D Dept. Astronomy, Univ. of Texas at Austin (1977)
• B.S. Dept. Physics, National Tsing Hua Univ. (1970)

Honors & Awards

• Academician, Academia Sinica (2000)
• Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999)
• Outstanding Schloarship Award, Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship (1998~2003)
• Outstanding Researcher Award, National Science Council, National Science Council (R.O.C.) (1988~1990)
• Fellow, Meteoritical Society (1988)
• Outstanding Researcher Award, National Science Council, National Science Council (R.O.C.) (1985~1987)
• Trumpler Award (best Ph.D. thesis N. America), Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1977)

Research Interests

Nuclear Astrophysics

Recent Journal Papers

1. van Kooten Elishevah M.M.E., Cavalcante Larissa L., Nagashima Kazuhide, Kasama Takeshi, Balogh Zoltan I., Peeters Zan, Hsiao Silver Sung-Yun, Shang Hsien, Lee Der-Chuen, Lee Typhoon, Krot Alexander N., Bizzarro Martin, "Isotope record of mineralogical changes in a spectrum of aqueously altered CM chondrites" , Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta: 237, 79-102, 2018 [SCI] (Fulltext)
2. Kimura M; Isogai K; Kato T; ...; Chen Y-T; King S-K; Wen C-Y; Wang SY; Lehner MJ; Schwamb ME; Wang JH; Zhang Z-W; ...;Cook KH; Kim D-W; Lee T;et al., "Repetitive Patterns in Rapid Optical Variations in the Nearby Black-hole Binary V404 Cygni" , NATURE: 529(7584), 54-58, 2016-01 [SCI] (Fulltext)
3. Ishioka R; Wang S-Y; Zhang Z-W; Lehner MJ; Alcock C; Axelrod T; Bianco FB; Byun Y-I; Chen WP; Cook KH; Kim D-W; King S-K; Lee T; Marshall SL; Protopapas P; Rice JA; Schwamb ME; Wang J-H; Wen C-Y; Ngeow C-C, "The Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey Project Stellar Variability. III. Detection of 58 New Variable Stars" , ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL: 147(4), 70, 2014-04 [SCI] (Fulltext)
4. Liu MC, Chaussidon M,Gopel C, (Lee T), "A Heterogeneous Solar Nebula as Sampled by CM Hibonites" , Meteorit Planet Sci: 46,A141, 2011-07 [SCI]
5. Liu M-C; Nittler LR; O'D Alexander CM; Lee T, "Lithium–Beryllium–Boron Isotopic Compositions in Meteoritic Hibonite: Implications for Origin of 10Be and Early Solar System Irradiation" , ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL: 719(1), L99-L103, 2010-08 [SCI]
6. Lehner MJ, ..., Zhang ZW, ...,Wang JH, ...,King SK, Lee T, ...,Wang SY, Wen CY, "The TAOS Project: Statistical Analysis of Multi-Telescope Time Series Data" , PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC: 122(894), 959-975, 2010-08 [SCI]
7. Mondal S; ...; Zhang ZW;...; King S-K; Lee T; Lehner MJ; ...; Wang J-H; Wang S-Y; Wen C-Y, "The Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey Project Stellar Variability. II. Detection of 15 Variable Stars" , Astronomical Journal: 139(5), 2026-2033, 2010-05 [SCI] (Fulltext)
8. Bianco FB, Zhang ZW, Lehner MJ, ...,King SK,...,Wang JH,...,Lee T,...,Wang SY, Wen CY, "The TAOS Project: Upper Bounds on the Population of Small KBOs and Tests of Models of Formation and Evolution of the Outer Solar System" , ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL: 139(4), 1499-1514, 2010-04 [SCI] (Fulltext)
9. Kim D-W; ...; King S-K; Lee T; Lehner MJ; ...; Wang J-H; Wang S-Y; Wen C-Y; Zhang ZW, "The Taiwan-American Occultation Survey Project Stellar Variability. I. Detection of Low-Amplitude δ Scuti Stars" , ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL: 139(2), 757-764, 2010-02 [SCI] (Fulltext)
10. Wang J-H; Lehner MJ; ...; King S-K; Lee T; ...; Wang S-Y; Wen C-Y; et al., "Upper Limits on the Number of Small Bodies in Sedna-Like Orbits by the TAOS Project" , ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL: 138(6), 1893-1901, 2009-12 [SCI] (Fulltext)
11. Z.-W. Zhang, D.-W. Kim, J.-H. Wang, M. J. Lehner, W. P. Chen, Y.-I. Byun, C. Alcock, T. Axelrod, F. B. Bianco, N. K. Coehlo, K. H. Cook, R. Dave, I. de Pater, J. Giammarco, S.-K. King, T. Lee, H.-C. Lin, S. L. Marshall, R. Porrata, P. Protopapas, J. A. Rice, M. E. Schwamb, S.-Y. Wang, and C.-Y. Wen, "The TAOS Project: High-Speed Crowded Field Aperture Photometry" , PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC: 121, 1429-1439, 2009-11 [SCI]
12. Lin CL; ...; King SK; ...; Wang JH;...; Lehner MJ; ...; Lee T; ...; Wang SY; Wen CY; et al., "A Close Binary Star Resolved from Occultation by 87 Sylvia" , PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC: 121(878), 359-364, 2009-04 [SCI] (Fulltext)
13. Lehner MJ; Wen C-Y; Wang J-H; ...; King S-K; et al., "The Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey: The Multi-Telescope Robotic Observatory" , PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC: 121(876), 138-152, 2009-02 [SCI] (Fulltext)
14. Zhang ZW; ...; Lehner MJ; ...; Wang JH; ...; King SK; Lee T; ...; Wang SY; Wen CY, "First Results from the Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey (TAOS)" , ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL: 685(1), L157-L160, 2008-10 [SCI] (Fulltext)
15. Chen HW; Lee T; Ku TL; et al., "Production Ratio of Nuclear Fallout Cs-137/Cs-135" , CHINESE JOURNAL OF PHYSICS: 46(5), 560-569, 2008-10 [SCI] (Fulltext)
16. Wang JH;...; Huang KY; Wen CY; ...; Wang SY; ...; Lehner MJ; ...; King SK; Lee T; Urata Y, "The Early Optical Brightening in the GRB071010B" , ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL: 679(1), L5-L8, 2008-05 [SCI] (Fulltext)
17. Lehner MJ; ...;King SK; Lee T; ...;Wang A; Wang SY; Wen CY; et al., "TAOS - The Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey" , ASTRONOMISCHE NACHRICHTEN: 327(8), 814-817, 2006-08 [SCI] (Fulltext)
18. Gounelle M; Shu F; Shang H; Glassgold AE; Rehm KE; Lee T, "The Irradiation Origin of Beryllium Radioisotopes and Other Short-lived Radionuclides" , ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL: 640(2), 1163-1170, 2006-04 [SCI] (Fulltext)
19. Shen JJ-S; Lee T, "138La Anomaly in the Early Solar System" , ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL: 596(1), L109-L112, 2003-10 [SCI] (Fulltext)
20. Alcock C; Dave R; ...; King SK; Lee T; Wang A; Wang SY; Wen CY; et al, "TAOS: The Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey" , EARTH MOON AND PLANETS: 92(1-4), 459-464, 2003-06 [SCI] (Fulltext)
21. Chen WP; ...; King SK; ...; Lee T;...; Wang A; Wang SY; Wen CY, "Fast CCD Photometry in the Taiwan-America Occultation Survey" , BALTIC ASTRONOMY: 12(4), 568-573, 2003 (Fulltext)
22. Gounelle M; Shu FH; Shang H; ...; Lee T, "Extinct radioactivities and protosolar cosmic rays: Self-shielding and light elements" , ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL: 548(2), 1051-1070, 2001-02 [SCI] (Fulltext)
23. Shu FH; Shang H; Gounelle M; Glassgold AE; Lee T, "The origin of chondrules and refractory inclusions in chondritic meteorites" , ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL: 548(2), 1029-1050, 2001-02 [SCI] (Fulltext)
24. Shang H; Shu FH; Lee T; Glassgold AE, "Protostellar winds and chondritic meteorites - Formation of solids: The first step" , SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS: 92(1-2), 153-176, 2000 [SCI] (Fulltext)
25. Shu FH; Shang H; Glassgold AE; Lee T, "X-rays and fluctuating x-winds from protostars" , SCIENCE: 277(5331), 1475-1479, 1997-09 [SCI] (Fulltext)
26. Shu FH; Shang H; Lee T, "Toward an Astrophysical Theory of Chondrites" , SCIENCE: 271(5255), 1545-1552, 1996-03 [SCI] (Fulltext)