Chung Sun-lin is a Taiwanese geologist.
Chung earned his bachelor's (1981), master's (1984), and doctoral (1990) degrees, all in geology, from National Taiwan University.[1] [2] Chung began his teaching career at his alma mater as a lecturer between 1991 and 1994, held an associate professorship at NTU from 1994 to 1998, was subsequently promoted to full professor, and was appointed to a distinguished and chair professorship in 2006, a position he retained until retirement in 2014.[1] [2] Chung was also affiliated with Academia Sinica's Institute of Earth Sciences as an associate research fellow, starting in January 2001.[1] Sung was promoted to distinguished research fellow in May 2014, and became institute director in May 2017.[3]
Chung was elected to fellowship within the Geological Society of America and the Mineralogical Society of America in 2005 and 2012, respectively.[2] [4] [5] In 2014, he was awarded the TWAS Prize in Earth Sciences.[6] In 2018, Chung was elected to The World Academy of Sciences as a fellow.[7] Chung was elected a member of Academia Sinica in 2016,[2] and a fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2023.[8] [9]