Ming-Fa Lin

Ming-Fa Lin (Taiwanese Mandarin: 林 明發, Taiwanese Hokkien: ''Lîm Bîng-Huat''; - ) was a Taiwanese theoretical physicist. He was a distinguished professor in the Department of Physics in the National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan. His main scientific interests focus on the essential properties of carbon-related materials and low-dimensional systems. He presided over more than 10 Ministry of Science and Technology research projects. He published more than 300 peer-reviewed articles and over 10 academic books. His research principles include innovation, uniqueness, diversity, completeness, and generalization. In 2023, Prof. Ming-Fa Lin was awarded the top 2% of the world's top scientists for honoring his career-long research works.

He received a B.S. degree in physics from National Cheng Kung University in 1984. Later he received the M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in physics from National Tsing Hua University (Hsinchu, Taiwan) in 1986 and 1993, respectively.

As a postdoctoral fellow in physics from the National Tsing-Hua University, he stayed until 1995. After three years in the National Chiao Tung University (Hsinchu, Taiwan), 1995–1997, he became a professor in the National Cheng Kung University. M. F. Lin was a member of the American Physical Society, American Chemical Society, Physical Society of Taiwan, and Taiwan Association of University Professors. Provided by Wikipedia