Chang, Hsiang-Kuang
Professor
Institute of Astronomy
National Tsing Hua University
Hsinchu 300044, Taiwan
Tel: 886-3-5742952
E-mail: hkchang @ mx. nthu. edu. tw
Office location: Rm 511, General Bldg II-B, NTHU
These are courses that I offer. Lecture notes for those courses without links
can be found
via eLearn at NTHU.
Research interests:
- Gamma-ray Transients Monitor (GTM) onboard Formosat-8B
- Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI), a NASA SMEX mission
- Pulsars (PSR)
- Anomalous X-ray Pulsars (AXP) and Soft Gamma Repeaters (SGR) - magnetars
- X-ray binaries (XRB)
- Gamma Ray Bursts (GRB)
- Supernova Remnants (SNR) and Cosmic Rays (CR)
- Galactic 511 keV emission
- Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)
- Search for white dwarf p-mode oscillation
- Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNO)
Publications ...
Major academic services:
- Chair, Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, 2008 - 2011
- Director, Institute of Astronomy, National Tsing Hua University, 2008 - 2011
- President, Astronomical Society of the Republuc of China (ASROC), 2008 - 2011
- Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, National Tsing Hua University, 2011 - 2014
- Vice President for General Affairs, National Tsing Hua University, 2014 - 2015
- President, Teacher's Union of NTHU, 2019 - 2021
- President, National Committee of Republic of China (ROC) for Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), 2022-2024
- Vice President for General Affairs, National Tsing Hua University, 2023 - 2025
- Senior Vice President, National Tsing Hua University, 2025 - present
A brief story:
- Born in Taipei, Taiwan, 1964
- Bachelor of Science in Physics,
Department of Physics,
National Tsing Hua University
(NTHU), Hsinchu, Taiwan, 1987
- Master of Science in Physics,
Institute of Physics,
National Taiwan University
(NTU), Taipei, Taiwan, 1991
- Doctor of Natural Science in Astronomy,
Institute of Astrophysics and
Extraterrestrial Research,
Bonn University,
Bonn, Germany, 1994
- Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Los Alamos National Lab, USA, 1994 - 1996
- Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, 1996 - 1997
- Assistant, Associate and Full Professor of Astronomy and Physics,
National Tsing Hua University, 1997 - present
hkchang @ mx. nthu. edu. tw, Hsinchu