The Dr. Wang Shih-Chieh Memorial Chair Professorship was established to recognize research staffs of Academia Sinica in the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences for their outstanding research achievements and significant impacts on society or academic community. There will be only one awardee of this professorship in the year of 2025. The awardee will be given a cash prize of 450,000NTD, and be invited to present as keynote speaker at the Lecture in Honor of Late President Wang Shih-Chieh in 2026.
Eligible applicants must hold the position of Associate Research Fellow or above at Academia Sinica, with their research focus on social sciences primarily. Three ways of nomination can be accepted as follows: (1) self nomination ; (2) nominated by the research institutes or centers of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences at Academia Sinica; or (3) nominated by the Wang Shih-Chieh Memorial Research Lectureship Review Committee.
Applicants should provide a curriculum vitae in both Chinese and English, list of publications, research proposal (with English abstract), three representative publications in the past 10 years. Applicants can declare conflict of interest(COI) and provide namelist at their discretion.
This award is available to online application only. Applicants should log in the Academic Service Management System, Academic Sinica (https://asms.sinica.edu.tw/) and complete application before March 10, 2025. Overdue applications will not be processed. If applicants’ representative publication is a monograph, they must provide three copies of it to the Department of Academic Affairs and Instrument Service.