ECR Working Group

Early-Career Researchers working group was formed in late 2020 and has become one of the most active working groups at Future Earth Taipei. The group members are mainly university professors coming from different disciplines, and are at a relatively early stage of their career. The ECR working group operates on a voluntary basis with inputs from the secretariat of Future Earth Taipei.

Jiun-Chuan LIN 林俊全

Advisor 顧問

Prof. Lin is Distinguished Professor of the Department of Geography in National Taiwan University. He is the advisor of ECR working group and the member of Urban Group at Future Earth Taipei. He is currently in charge of the development of South East Asia Regional Engagement Partner for the Future Earth Coast programme.

Prof. Lin has been the director of the Global Change Research Center at National Taiwan University since 2014. His research interests lie in slope erosion, and coastal geomorphology and hazards. To learn more about his professional work, visit Landscape Conservation in Taiwan.

Email me: jclin@ntu.edu.tw

Hsiao-Chun (Jean) TSENG 曾筱君

Coordinator 召集人

Hsiao-Chun (Jean) is an associate professor of the Institute of Marine Environment and Ecology in National Taiwan Ocean University. She is trained as a chemical oceanographer and holds a Ph. D degree in Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorates program in Marine and Coastal Management. Her research mainly focuses on aquatic greenhouse gas emissions, marine biogeochemical cycling, climate and environmental change as well as how anthropogenic activities interact with the marine and coastal environment. She is a convener of ECR working group and a working group member of Ocean KAN at Future Earth Taipei. She is also a working group member of Taiwan Ocean Union (TOU) and has been promoting blue carbon and blue carbon credit.

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/tseng-lab
E-mail: hctseng@email.ntou.edu.tw

Yu-Chun (Dolly) CHUNG 鐘鈺鈞

Science Officer for International Programs 國際科技行政專員

Dr. Yu-Chun, Dolly Chung received her PhD from the Department of Management Sciences, Tamkang University, Taiwan. Her research focuses were marketing, consumer behavior, brand management, and so on. Dr. Chung had conducted sustainability-related programs during PhD and postdoctoral studies. She joined the Center for Sustainability Science in Academia Sinica; worked on Future Earth Taipei and Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) International Centre of Excellence (ICoE-Taipei) as a science officer in 2020. She is currently serving as the administrative secretary of Future Earth Taipei and also assists in the affairs of Future Earth Global Secretariat Hub Taipei. please visit Future Earth Taipei.

Email me: dolly0105@gate.sinica.edu.tw

Ying-Chen LIN 林映辰

Group Member

Dr. Lin is the member of the Early-Career Researchers Working Group. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Real Estate and Built Environment, National Taipei University. Dr. Lin has been experienced several research positions, as Post-doctoral Researcher at the Institute of Environmental Engineering, National Taiwan University, Science Officer at the Center of Sustainability Science (CSS), Academia Sinica, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow and joined the research group of Sustainable Urban Futures at the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Studies of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), Tokyo, Japan. In addition, he has previously been a Visiting Scholar at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP). To learn more about his professional works, please visit SUPREME Lab.

Email me: yingchen0915@mail.ntpu.edu.tw

Chia-Ying (Jessie) KO 柯佳吟

Group member

Dr. Ko is the member of the Early-Career Researchers Working Group since 2020. She conducts research that focuses on elucidating how important environmental disturbances, such as global climate change, natural resource exploitation and pollution, alter nature and strength of species interactions in ecosystems and ensuing ecosystem services. Her research attempts not only to integrate across scales of geography and ecological organization – from global to local assemblages, but also to apply in the world – from interdisciplinary to transdisciplinary.

She is Associate Professor in the Institute of Fisheries Science, Department of Life Science, & Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan. To know more about her work, please visit “Ko’s EER Lab”.

Email me: cyko235@ntu.edu.tw

Chia-Hsing LEE 李家興

Group member

Dr. Chia-Hsing Lee is one of the members of the Future Earth Taipei ECR working group and an Assistant Professor of the Department of Plant Industry at the National Pingtung University of Science and Technology. His expertise includes agricultural chemistry, reuses of green by-products, the carbon and nutrient cycles, and soil pollution.

Dr. Lee worked as the administrative officer of Future Earth Taipei (National Committee) for more than five years since 2016. Therefore he is well experienced in the global Future Earth and Future Earth Taipei operations. He has also contributed to both the National Committee’s and ECR Group’s growth. Now he is keen to bring sustainability science and knowledge about climate change to the young generation at the university. His research interest is the climate benefits of organic cultivation on farmland. He also welcomes transdisciplinary collaborations with researchers and stakeholders.

Email me: chlee@mail.npust.edu.tw

Zih-Ee LIN 林子羿

Group member

Dr. Zih-Ee Lin is an ssistant Professor at the Department of Resources Engineering, National Cheng Kung University. She holds a Ph.D. in environmental engineering from National Taiwan University. She was an ECR Network member of Future Earth Taipei in 2022.

Dr. Lin has expertise in the methodologies of life cycle assessment (LCA). Currently, she is working on research that bridges the gap between emerging science and its implementation in society with the LCA approach. To know more about her work, please visit “RESET Lab”.

Email me: ziheelin@gs.ncku.edu.tw

Yen-Tzu FAN 范晏慈

Group Member

Dr. Yen-Tzu Fan holds a PhD at Bioenvironmental Systems and Engineering from National Taiwan University. She joined Future Earth Taipei ECR network member in 2022. Since 2023, she participates in Future Earth Taipei ECR working group. She has been selected as a Early Career Researcher Fellow for SRI2023 Asia Spotlight Event.

Dr. Fan works as a postdoctoral research fellow at Graduate Institute of Environmental Engineering, National Taiwan University. Her expertise includes human health assessment, human heavy metal exposures, freshwater ecology, and benthic macroinvertebrate identification.

Email me: yentzu.fan@gmail.com

Hsin-Tien LIN 林心恬

Group member

Hsin-Tien Lin is an Associate Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Taiwan University. Hsin-Tien’s research is about promoting circular economy by approaches including life-cycle assessment, material flow analysis, and transdisciplinary collaboration. Her team works on improving the resource and energy efficiency of social and industrial systems, focusing on food packaging, end-of-life vehicle recycling, and agricultural waste for renewable energy. Hsin-Tien’s team collaborates with local stakeholders including retailers, food delivery service company, vehicle manufacturing company, and bioenergy company, and NGOs.

Website: https://hsintienlin.com/

Chun Pei LIAO 廖君珮

Group member

Dr. Chun-Pei Liao is a marine social scientist with a decade of experience in studying in the interaction of human activity and coastal environment. Dr. Liao focus her research on fisheries policy, marine protected area, blue economy, and marine debris with the research skill of systematic conservation planning. She holds a PhD from the Department of Environmental Biology and Fisheries Science, the National Taiwan Ocean University. Her current position as an assistant professor in Bachelor Program in High-Tech at National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology NKUST). Please visit my profile: https://scholar.google.com.tw/citations?hl=zh-TW&user=3AijuF4AAAAJ

Chieh Wei HSU 許介瑋

Group member

Dr. Chieh-Wei Hsu is an Assistant Professor in the Cross College Elite Tech Program at the National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology. He received his PhD from the University of Bremen in the Department of Geosciences. His research expertise lies in marine geology and geochemistry, with a focus on hydrocarbon seepage systems. He applies marine underwater vehicles in his research, particularly for the investigation, mapping, and seafloor manifestation of these systems, as well as for the quantification of gas bubble emissions.
Email me: cweihsu@nkust.edu.tw

YiJyun LIN

Group member

Dr. YiJyun Lin studies the impacts of climate change on different aspects of human security. Her research interests lie in the intersection of security implications of climate change, sustainable development, and computational social sciences. She currently works as a Postdoctoral researcher on a net-zero emission project with Prof. Minn-Tsong Lin. Before moving back to Taiwan, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. Email me: linyiyi26@gmail.com

Wasiq SILAN (I-An GAO) 高怡安

Group member

Wasiq Silan (I-An Gao), of the Taranan river valley in the northern Indigenous Tayal territory, is an Assistant Professor at the College of Indigenous Studies at the National Dong Hwa University and also a researcher at the Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism (CEREN) at the University of Helsinki. Her research interests and experience are developing sustainable quality-of-life care systems, decolonizing state-Indigenous relationships, elder care, Indigenous relationalities, indigenizing curriculum, eco-care, cultural safety and sovereignty and collaborative and community-based approaches. Email me: wasiq.silan@gms.ndhu.edu.tw

Yung-Chen CHENG 鄭詠晨

Group member

Dr. Cheng is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Real Estate & Built Environment, National Taipei University. His research expertise lies in urban governance, urban transformation, and nature-based solutions. Email me: yuchzheng@mail.ntpu.edu.tw

Previous Working Group Members

2019 – 2022

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2023 – 2024

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