Department of Physics,National Taiwan University

•     Vice President of Student Affairs, NTU, 2023-now
•     Associate Editor, Biophysical Reports, 2021-now
•     Board of Directors, Taiwan Physical Society, 2020-2024
•     Vice Dean, NTU D.School, 2021 - 2024
•     Associate Director, NTU Molecular Imaging Center, 2020 -
•     Associate Director for Innovative Imaging Technologies, NTHU Brain Research Center, 2020 -
•     Visiting professor, Laboratoire Photonique, Numérique et Nanosciences, Bordeaux University (with Dr. Laurent Cognet), Jun – Aug 2019
•     Deputy Director, NTU center for teaching and learning development, 2019 –2021
•     Associate Director for Innovative Teaching Strategy, NTU D.School, 2019 - 2021
•     Professor, Department of Physics, National Taiwan University. Aug. 2014 -
•     Associate director, NTU center for teaching and learning development, 2012-2016
•     Deputy director, NTU leadership development program, 2012 – 2015
•     Visiting scholar, Department of Physics, Heidelberg University (with Prof. Christoph Cremer) Aug 2012
•     Visiting scholar, Department of Applied Physics, Osaka University (with Prof. Satoshi Kawata) Jul – Sep 2010
•     Visiting professor, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Tubingen University. (with Prof. Alfred Meixner) Jul – Sep 2009.
•     Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, National Taiwan University.     Aug. 2006 – Jul 2010.

• 2020, 2023 Future Technology Award from the Ministry of Science and Technology
• 2016-2020 Outstanding young scholar research project award from the Ministry of Science and Technology
• 2015 Young Scholars’ Creativity Award of the Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship
• 2015 Excellent Mentor Award of National Taiwan University
• 2013 Outstanding Teaching Award of National Taiwan University
• 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 Excellent Teaching Award of National Taiwan University
• 2010 the Exploration Research Award of Pan Wen Yuan Foundation（潘文淵基金會考察研究獎）

Research and Teaching Interests:

The main research interest is to develop advanced optical spectroscopy and microscopy techniques and apply them onto biological systems and nanophotonics inspection. Current research topics include:

1. Brain functional imaging  

2. Nonlinear metaphotonics for all-optical switch and super-resolution imaging  

1. Y. Che,…, S.-W. Chu, and X. Li, “Nanophotonic inspection of deep-subwavelength integrated optoelectronic chips.” Sci. Adv. 11, eadr8427 (2025)
2. Y.-T. Hsieh,… S.-W. Chu*, “TAG-SPARK: Empowering High-Speed Volumetric Imaging with Deep Learning and Spatial Redundancy” Adv. Sci., e2405293 (2024).
3. K. Nishida, … S.-W. Chu*, ”Optical bistability in nanosilicon with record low Q-factor” Nano Lett. 23, 11727 (2023)
4. Y.-L. Tang, …S.-W. Chu*, “Multipole engineering by displacement resonance: a new degree of freedom of Mie resonance” Nat. Comm. 14, 7213 (2023)
5. G.-J. Huang, … S.-W. Chu*, “Transient Super-/Sub-linear Nonlinearities in Silicon Nanostructures” Adv. Opt. Mater., 2101711 (2022), Inside Cover, selected as “Optics in 2022” by Optics & Photonics News.
6. Y.-L. Tang, … S.-W. Chu*, “Mie-enhanced photothermal/thermo-optic nonlinearity and super-resolution imaging” Opt. Mat. Express 11, 3608 (2021) Invited Review, most downloaded in Nov/Dec 2021.
7. S.-H. Huang, … S.-W. Chu*, “Optical Volumetric Brain Imaging: Speed, Depth, and Resolution Enhancement” J. Phys. D 54, 323002 (2021). Invited Review
8. Y.-S. Duh, … S.-W. Chu*, “Giant photothermal nonlinearity in single silicon nanostructure” Nature Comm. 11, 4101 (2020).
9. T. Zhang, … S.-W. Chu*, X. Li*, “Anapole Mediated Giant Photothermal Nonlinearity for Super-Localization Nanoscopy” Nature Comm. 11, 3027 (2020)