得獎與榮譽：

1. 2007年中央研究院年輕學者著作獎
2. 2006年國家科學委員會吳大猷先生紀念獎
3. Fulbright Scholarship for the year of 2006-07.
4. Membership, Institute of Advanced Study (School of Historical Studies), Princeton, Fall term, 2006.
5. 2003年李氏基金會獎金（The Li Foundation of New York Heritage Prize）

知識的傳統、形式與媒介

我的研究興趣在科學思想、學術文化及知識表達的型式。2002年我在美國芝加哥大學取得歷史學博士學位，所受的訓練在西方文藝復興至啟蒙時期的歷史，以及科學、醫學史。同年到本所迄今，我關注的重點在於歐洲近代科學與思想界對生命與物質的解釋，另一重心則在於dissertation做為學術寫作的文類，其演變的歷史。2006年在普林斯頓的高等研究院（Institute for Advanced Study）訪問研究，和來自世界各國的學者切磋交流，促使我將研究主題放在更寬廣的比較視野。

未來幾年內有幾項研究主題。第一，完成專書一冊，探討笛卡兒（Rene Descartes）批判傳統生命觀之後歐洲思想界的發展，闡述德國醫學家Georg Ernst Stahl（1659-1734）的生命與物質的學說在其間扮演的重要位置，及其學說對啟蒙科學、哲學思想的影響。第二亦為一專書寫作計畫，敘述dissertation在三個面向的重大轉變：從中古的口頭辯論轉變到今天的書寫文本；文本論文的作者由指導教授轉變為學位候選人；原創性成為博士論文的必要條件。這三方面的轉變一起促成現代博士論文的成形。第三，廣泛地研究知識的形式、媒介、及學術制度的建立和播遷。博士論文的轉變是個案研究之一。另一個方向是考察口說（oral）的知識形式與書寫（textual）的知識形式在不同文化、社會的關係。再一個方向則探討大學作為教學、研究的機制最早被引進東亞時，思想界的排拒及其在地化的歷史。類似的議題，則是哲學博士（Ph.D.）學位從德國起源，隨後在法國、美國、英國、日本建立的個案，從而分析知識強權從法國、德國、到美國之間的轉換，高等教育在過去兩百年間的全球化，以及不同文化對知識的形式的不同構想與堅持。

論文

1. “Stahl, Georg Ernst,” New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, ed. Noretta Koertge (Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2007), 6: 504-508.
2. “Georg Ernst Stahl's Alchemical Publications: Anachronism, Reading Market, and a Scientific Lineage Redefined,”New Narratives in Eighteenth Century Chemistry, ed. Lawrence M. Principe (Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer, 2007), 23-43.
3. “Toleration of Alchemists as Political Question: Transmutation, Disputation, and Early Modern Scholarship on Alchemy,” Ambix, 54 (2007): 245-273..
4. “Georg Ernst Stahl,” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th edition (World Wide Web edition), 2007 (http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-261656).
5. “From Vitalistic Cosmos to Materialistic World: The Lineage of Johann Joachim Becher and Georg Ernst Stahl and the Shift of Early Modern Chymical Cosmology,” Chymists and Chymistry: Studies in the History of Alchemy and Early Modern Chemistry, ed. Lawrence M. Principe (Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications, 2007), 215-225.
6. “Kant's Disputation of 1770: The Dissertation and the Communication of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe,” Endeavour, 31 (2007): 45-49.
7. “From Oral Disputation to Written Text: The Transformation of the Dissertation in Early Modern Europe,” History of Universities, 19 (2004): 129-87.
8. “Motus Tonicus: Georg Ernst Stahl's Formulation of Tonic Motion and Early Modern Medical Thought,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 78 (2004): 767-803.
9. “Fermentation, Phlogiston, and Matter Theory: Chemistry and Natural Philosophy in Georg Ernst Stahl's Zymotechnia Fundamentalis,” Early Science and Medicine,7 (2002): 31-64.
10. “The 'Artists of Fire' and the Dennis I. Duveen Collection,” Messenger Magazine, Friends of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, 36 (1998): 23-24.

演講與會議論文

1. “Languages and Translation of Knowledge: The Introduction of Medical Dissertations to the Popular Book Market in Early Modern Germany,” History of Science Society Meeting, Arlington, VA, November 2, 2007.
2. “The Role of the Dissertation in the Scientific Communication of Early Modern Europe,” Department of the History of Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins University, April 16, 2007.
3. “The Role of the Dissertation in the Scientific Communication in Early Modern Europe,” Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, March 30, 2007.
4. “The Chinese Influence on the Western Examination System: a Historical Thesis,” East Asian Seminar, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, February 26, 2007.
5. “The Role of the Dissertation in the Communication of Knowledge of Early Modern Europe,” History and Philosophy of Science Workshop, University of Chicago, February 23, 2007.
6. “The Role of the Dissertation in the Scientific Communication of Early Modern Europe,”Department of the History of Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, February 16, 2007.
7. “Academic Publication, Scientific Communication and the Early ModernUniversity,” American Historical Association Meeting, Atlanta, January 7, 2007.
8. “The Role of the Dissertation in the Communication of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe,” Early Modern Seminar, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, November 15, 2006.
9. “The Place of the Dissertation in the Scientific Communication of Early Modern Europe,”Princeton University, Center for the Study of Books and Media, November 28, 2006.
10. “From Vitalistic Cosmos to Materialistic Globe: Reconsidering the Chymical Lineage of J. J. Becher and G. E. Stahl,” History of Science Seminar, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, November 8, 2006.
11. “Balsamic Pills: The Alchemical Background and Commercial Value of the Stahlian Equivalent of Universal Medicine,” History or Science Society Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, November 3, 2006.
12. “From Vitalistic Cosmos to Materialistic Globe: Reconsidering the Chymical Lineage of J. J. Becher and G. E. Stahl,” International Conference on Alchemy and Chymistry, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, July 22, 2006.
13. “From Vitalistic Earth to Materialistic Globe: Johann Joachim Becher and Georg Ernst Stahl on Subterranean Physics and Chemistry of Minerals,” British Society for the History of Philosophy, Robinson College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, April 4, 2006.
14. “From Believer to Disbeliever: Georg Ernst Stahl's Visions of Alchemy in Transition and the Context of Their Publications,”Department of the History of Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, November 11, 2005.
15. “The Formation of the Modern Dissertation: Media of Knowledge Publication, Norm of Academic Writings, and Qualification of the Modern Scholar,” History of the Human Sciences Workshop, University of Chicago, April 29, 2005.
16. Invited paper, “Alchemy in the Works of Georg Ernst Stahl: Views of Alchemy in Transition and the Context of Their Publications,” Workshop on Eighteenth-Century Chemistry, Francis Bacon Award Conference, California Institute of Technology, April 21, 2005.
17. “The Active and the Passive: Soul, Matter, and the Transformation of the Vital Principle in Eighteenth-Century Vitalism,” American Association for the History of Medicine meeting, Madison, Wisconsin, April, 30, 2004.
18. “Legitimacy and Social Order: Johann Franz Buddeus' Dissertation on Toleration and Alchemy,”History or Science Society Meeting, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 22, 2003.
19. “Student Life in Early Modern Europe: Culture and Identities” Department of Anthropology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, October 15, 2003.
20. “The History of the Dissertation: Academic Writings, Knowledge Publications, and Academic Culture in Early Modern Europe,” May 15, 2003, Department of History, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
21. “Medicine for Ladies: The Introduction of Georg Ernst Stahl's Gynecological Work to the Popular Book Market,” November 8, 2002, History of Science Society Meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
22. “Piety and Life: Theories of Life in Pietist Halle,” (position paper), Midwest German History Workshop, November 11, 2000, Madison, Wisconsin.