• Sebastian Volz obtained his MSc. In Mechanical Engineering (French Grande Ecole ENSMA, France) in 1993 and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 1996 (U. Poitiers, France) with a thesis on Nanoscale Thermal Physics. During 1997-1998, he was a postdoctoral research assistant at UCLA. He held tenured positions as: 1998-2000 Assistant Professor in Heat Transfer, ENSMA; 2001-2008 CNRS Research Fellow at Ecole Centrale Paris (France); 2009-2010 CNRS Senior Research Fellow at University of Tokyo. He became a CNRS Senior Research Fellow at Ecole Centrale Paris in 2010 and came back to the University of Tokyo in 2017

• SV carries out research in solid state nanoscale thermal transport, including phonon-electron-photon modelling and metrologies for key applications such as thermoelectricity, photovoltaics and IC cooling. He is author of more than 340 scientific communications and has edited two books. He has been leading the CNRS European Network ‘Thermal Nanosciences and Nanoengineering’ since 2001 and the joint team between Ecole Centrale Paris and Thales since 2009.

     Experiences:

• 1978 – 1979 : Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
• 1979 – 1980 : Assistant Professor, Kyushu University
• 1980 – 1981 : Lecturer, Kyushu University
• 1981 – 1991 : Associate Professor, Kyushu University
• 1991 – 2009 : Professor
• 2009 – 2017 : Distinguished Professor
• 2017 – present : Speciallly-appointed Professor

     Main research activities:

• Multi-color laser emission for the generation of ultrashort optical pulses by four-wave Raman mixing
• Developent of laser ionization mass spectrometry

     Experiences:

• 2017 - present : National Policy Advisors to the President
• 2011 -2014 : President, Taiwan Industrial Technology AssociationHigh Commissioner’s Visiting Committee Member
• 2010 -2012 : President, Taiwan Smart Grid Industry Association
• 2007.7 - 2008.7 : Chairman, Science and Technology Interchange Committee, Association of East Asian Relations
• 2004.8 - 2006.8 : Executive Secretary, Energy policy and Technology, Development Advisory Committee, Executive Yuan
• 2004.5 - 2006.8 : Deputy Minister, National Science Council, Executive Yuan
• 2000.5 - 2004.5 : Deputy Minister, Research, Development, and Evalution Commission, Executive Yuan
• 1996.8 - 2000.5 : Director, Optical Sciences Center, National Central University.
• 1994.8 - 2009.7 : Professor, Department of physics, Department of Optics and Photonics, National Central University
• 1992.7 - 1994.6 : Director, Division of Optoelectronics Materials and Devices, OES, ITRI
• 1990.5 - 1992.6 : Director, Division of Semiconductor Materials, MRL, ITRI
• 1977.1 - 1990.2 : Member of Technical staff AT&T Bell Laboratories
• 1970.8 - 1972.7 : Laboratory Instructor, Department of Physics, NTNU

     Professional Honors:

• Excellent Contribution Award, the Electronics Devices and Materials Association, 2004.

• ISI Citation Index Award (Applied Physics, Taiwan), 2001.

• Best R&D Project Achievement Award (MOEA, Taiwan), 1996. Ten Most Distinguished Engineer Award (Taiwan), 1993.

• Exceptional Contribution Awards, AT&T Bell Labs.1986, 1988. Member of The New York Academy of Science, 1980.

• Included in who's who in Technology Today, 1981.

• Secretary, International Union of Materials Research Society (1995-1996).