Academia Sinica
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This article is about the institution in the Republic of China (Taiwan). For the institution in the Chinese mainland, see Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Academia Sinica (AS, Latin: Academia Sinica, lit. 'Chinese Academy'; Chinese: 中央研究院; lit. 'Central Research Academy'), headquartered in Nangang, Taipei, is the national academy of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
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Formed | 1928 (in Nanking) 1949 (in Taipei, Taiwan) |
Headquarters | Nangang, Taipei[1] 25°2′45″N 121°36′37″E |
Employees | ~5,800[2] (incl. 976 principal investigators, 111 research specialists, 775 post-docs, 2,150 students)[3] |
Annual budget | 12.5 billion NTD ($400 million) (2020)[4] |
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Parent agency | Office of the President |
Website | www |
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Founded in Nanking, the academy supports research activities in mathematical and physical sciences, to life sciences, and to humanities and social sciences. As an educational institute, it provides PhD training and scholarship through its English-language Taiwan International Graduate Program in biology, agriculture, chemistry, physics, informatics, and earth and environmental sciences.[5]
The current president since 2016 is James C. Liao, an expert in metabolic engineering, systems biology and synthetic biology.[6]