Chiang named new scientific director at SRC

Professor of Physics Tai-Chang Chiang has been appointed the scientific director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Synchrotron Radiation Center (SRC). Chiang, a condensed matter experimentalist, is a long-time user of the Aladdin storage ring at SRC.

"I am very pleased and honored to become a member of the SRC family on a guest appointment," says Chiang. "I am a strong believer of the outstanding value of SRC as a user facility that has served the scientific community well with a great track record."

"With Tai's deep knowledge of the research that can be enabled with electron beam light sources, he will ensure that the paths we take to the future will produce the most transforming and valuable science for the nation," said SRC Director Joe Bisognano. 

After receiving a BS in physics from the National Taiwan University in 1971, Chiang received his PhD in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1978. He joined the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois in 1980, after working as a postdoctoral fellow at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY.

Chiang has done ground-breaking work on bulk, surface, and interface states of metals and semiconductors using photoemission techniques. Using synchrotron-radiation photoemission spectroscopy, scanning tunneling microscopy, and molecular beam epitaxy techniques, he has examined the growth processes and the resulting physical properties of various surface and interface systems that are of fundamental scientific interest and great technological relevance.  

Although he will serve as the intellectual lead of the science program at SRC, Chiang will continue to teach and do research at Illinois.
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Contact: Tai-Chang Chiang, Department of Physics, 217/333-2593.

Writer: Celia M. Elliott, Department of Physics, 217/244-7725.

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