The 2023 Taiwan Outstanding Women in Science winners were honored March 4 in Taipei City, highlighting achievements by Taiwan’s female scientists.
Chen Yu-ju is distinguished research fellow at Academia Sinica’s Institute of Chemistry and she won the outstanding researcher award for her work in proteomics and mass spectrometry.
Chen is recognized as being the first scientist in the world to develop nanoprobe-based mass spectrometry and leads Taiwan’s participation in the US-launched Cancer Moonshot project.
Other 2023 TOWSA honorees are Lin Li-hwai, research fellow at Academia Sinica’s Institute of Astronomy, and Vita Pi-oo Hu, associate professor at National Taiwan University’s Department of Electrical Engineering. Both received young scientist of excellence awards.
Astrophysicist Lin was recognized for her research on the evolution of galaxy properties and the formation of large-scale structures. Hu was lauded for her work on materials based nano-electronics as well as memory and circuits.
TOWAS was first presented in 2008 and carries prize money of NT$600,000 (US$19,425). The awards are jointly organized by L’Oreal Taiwan and Taipei-based Wu Chien-shiung Scholarship Foundation.
Inspired by the L’Oreal-UNESCO Women in Science Awards, TOWAS recognizes the vital research contributions of outstanding women scientists to advancing scientific progress. (DL-E)
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