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Curriculum Vitae (pdf version)
Ming-Chang Liu
Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles
(O) +1-310-825-3580
Email: mcliu AT ucla.edu
Education
- Ph.D. 2008
Department of Earth and Space Sciences, UCLA
Thesis: Short-lived
radionuclides and early solar system chronology: A hibonite
perspective.
Advisor: Prof. Kevin D. McKeegan
- B.S. 2001
Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan,
R.O.C
Professional
Experiences
- Ion Microprobe
Specialist, Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, UCLA,
July 2014– present
- Assistant Research
Fellow, Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, Jan. 2012– July 2014
- Joint Postdoctoral
Researcher, CRPG, CNRS/Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia
Sinica, Sept. 2010– Aug. 2011
- Joint Postdoctoral
Researcher, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of
Washington/Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, Aug. 2008– Aug. 2010
- Research Assistant,
Department of Earth and Space Sciences, UCLA, Sept 2003– July 2008
- Teaching Assistant in ”Solar System and Planets”, Department
of Earth and Space Sciences, UCLA, Spring 2005 / Fall 2006.
- Research Assistant,
Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica,
Taiwan, Jan 2000 – Oct 2001.
- Summer Intern,
Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica,
Taiwan, Summer 2000
- Observational
Assistant of ”Observational
Astronomy”, Department of Physics, NTU, Spring 1998
Research
Interests
- Formation of CAIs,
Chondrites and the Solar System
- Short-lived
Radionuclides and Early Solar System Chronology
- Isotopic Anomalies in
Primitive Meteorites and Stellar Nucleosynthesis
- Modeling of Stable
Isotope Anomalies in Irradiation Processes
- Secondary Ion Mass
Spectrometry
Research
Experience
- 13-year Experience
with the UCLA CAMECA IMS 1270/6f Ion Microprobe, including operation and
routine maintenance
- 3-year Experience with
the CIW CAMECA NanoSIMS 50L Ion Microprobe,
including operation and routine maintenance
- 5-year Experience with
the UCLA Leo 1430 Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)
- 2-year Experience with
JEOL JSM-6500 field emission Scanning Electron Microscope
Honors
and Awards
- Visiting Professor,
IPGP, Paris, 2014
- JSPS Short-term
Researcher Fellowship, 2013
- Travel Grant from 72th
Meteoritical Society Meeting, 2009, Nancy,
France
- Student Travel Grant from ”Workshop on the Chronology of Meteorites
and the Early Solar System”, 2007, Kauai, Hawaii
- Excellence in Teaching
Earth and Space Sciences, 2007 (score 8.7 out of 9), Department of Earth
and Space Sciences, UCLA
- University Fellowship,
2007 Fall
- Student Travel Grant
from 69th Meteoritical Society Meeting, 2006,
Zurich, Switzerland
- Student Travel Grant from ”Workshop on Chondrite and Protoplanetary
disk”, 2004, Kauai, Hawaii
- IGPP Astrobiology
Fellowship, 2003
Professional
Society
- Meteoritical Society
- Geochemical Society
Community
Services
- Peer Reviewer: Geochimica
et Cosmochimica Acta,
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Meteoritics and Planetary Sciences, Astronomy and
Astrophysics, Planetary and Space Sciences, NASA Cosmochemistry
(now Emerging Worlds) Proposals, AGU Mono- graph.
- Conference: 2016
Goldschmidt 2c Session Convener.
Funding
- 2014–2015
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, ROC. Tracing irradiation
processes in the solar nebula by short-lived radionuclides in primitive
meteorites, (~56000 USD) sole PI (Turned down because of leaving
Academia Sinica for UCLA).
- 2013–2014
National Science Council, Taiwan, ROC. Early Solar System irradiation:
Clues from short-lived radionuclides in primitive meteorites, (~50000
USD) sole PI.
- 2012–2013
National Science Council, Taiwan, ROC. Tracing irradiation processes in
the early Solar System through isotopic compositions in meteorite
components ( ~66000 USD), sole PI.
Experiences
other than Astronomy and Cosmochemistry
- Secondary
Lieutenant of PoliticalWarfare, 2001-2003,
Army, Taiwan, R.O.C
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