Chiang Ann-shyn (; born 1958) is a Taiwanese entomologist and neuroscientist.
Chiang obtained a bachelor of science in entomology at National Chung Hsing University in 1981, earned a master's degree in plant pathology and entomology from National Taiwan University, then moved to the United States, where he completed a doctorate in entomology at Rutgers University in 1990.[1] Chiang's doctoral dissertation was titled Developmental Regulation of Juvenile Hormone Biosynthesis in Female Cockroaches.[2] Upon completing his postdoctoral research under Coby Schal at Rutgers in 1992, Chiang returned to Taiwan.[3]
Chiang began his teaching career as an associate professor at National Tsing Hua University, and was promoted to a full professorship in 1997. He led NTHU's Institute of Biotechnology from 2002 to 2008, and since 2004, has been director of the NTHU Brain Research Center. In 2007, Chiang was appointed to a Tsing Hua Chair Professorship, which became a Distinguished Tsing Hua Chair Professorship and the deanship of the NTHU College of Life Sciences in 2014. He has held an adjunct professorship at National Central University since 2005, an adjunct chair professorship at Kaohsiung Medical University since 2014, and an adjunct distinguished chair professorship at China Medical University since 2016.[1] [4] [5]
Chiang was awarded the 2012 TWAS Prize in Biology,[6] [7] and The World Academy of Sciences elected him as a fellow in 2016.[8] [9] [10] In 2014, he was elected a member of Academia Sinica.[11]