Wing-Huen Ip

Wing-Huen Ip (Chinese: 葉永烜; 10 March 1947) is a Chinese-born German astronomer.

Ip in 2023

Early life and education

Ip was born in Nanjing in 1947.^[1] He was raised in Macau and graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong with a Bachelor of Arts in physics in 1969,^[1][2] then moved to the United States to obtain a Master of Arts in the same subject from the University of Pittsburgh the following year.^[2] He completed his doctorate in applied physics and information technology at the University of California, San Diego in 1974.^[1][2] He remained at UCSD to pursue postdoctoral research.^[1][2]

Career

Between 1978 and 1998, Ip worked at the Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy.^[1][2] He relocated to Taiwan in 1998, serving as dean of science for National Central University until 2004, and subsequently vice president until 2008.^[1][2] He also held the Kwok-Ting Li Chair Professor within NCU's Institute of Astronomy.^[3] Ip is a founding member of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, established in 2004.^[4]

Ip is a 2007 fellow of the American Geophysical Union,^[5] a 2016 member of Academia Sinica,^[2] and 2020 recipient of the American Astronomical Society's Gerard P. Kuiper Prize.^[6] In 2023, Ip became a laureate of the Asian Scientist 100 by the Asian Scientist.^[7]