EDUCATION

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・Ph. D, Institute of Geophysics, National Central University, 2006;

・M. Sc., Institute of Geophysics, National Central University, 2002; and

・B. Sc., Department of Earth Science, National Central University, 2000.

 ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

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Deputy Director, Earthquake-Disaster & Risk Evaluation and Management Center, National Central University, Taiwan   May 2020 –

Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, National Central University, Taiwan   February 2020 –

・Seismic hazard and risk assessments in Taiwan

・Seismic hazard assessments in Myanmar and Vietnam

・Participation the Taiwan Earthquake Model (TEM)

・Risk exposure database construction

・Earthquake forecasting for Taiwan

・Ground motion prediction equation

Visitor, Earthquake-Disaster & Risk Evaluation and Management Center, National Central University, Taiwan   January 2020

・Seismic hazard assessments in Taiwan

AXA-Senior Research Fellow, Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore   April 2014 – December 2019

・Seismic hazard assessments in SE Asia and Taiwan

・Development of seismic hazard assessments

・Development of earthquake forecasting models

・Participation the Taiwan Earthquake Model (TEM) and Global Earthquake Model (GEM) projects

・Tsunami hazard assessment

・Seismic risk assessment for Phuket, Thailand, and Taiwan

Assistant Research Fellow, Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan   August 2013 – April 2014

・Stress state after the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, earthquake

・Probabilistic seismic hazard assessments in Taiwan

・Seismic risk assessment in Taiwan

Visitor, Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Secretariat, Pavia, Italy   November 2013

・Study on OpenQuake software

・Seismic hazard assessment for Taiwan

・Seismic risks assessment for Taiwan

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan   July 2010 – July 2013

・Participation the Taiwan Earthquake Model (TEM) and Global Earthquake Model (GEM) projects

・Seismic hazard assessments in Taiwan

・Seismic hazard assessment in Christchurch, New Zealand

・Earthquake forecasting in Taiwan

・Earthquake precursor in Taiwan

・Stress state evaluation in central Taiwan, Nankai Trough, and the Japan Trench

Visitor, Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Secretariat, Pavia, Italy   December 2012

・Study on OpenQuake software

・Seismic hazards in Taiwan

Visiting Researcher, Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan   April 2012 – June 2012

・Earthquake forecasting in Kanto, Japan

Postdoctoral Fellow, GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany   March 2007 – May 2010

・Participation the NERIES project

・Probabilistic seismic hazard assessment in EURO-MED

・Improvement of the Coulomb stress change calculation

・Earthquake forecasting in Italy

Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Geophysics, National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan   August 2006 – February 2007

・Fluid injection in the TCDP drill sites

Exchange Visitor, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, USA   March 2005 – February 2006

・Stress evolution after the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, earthquake

・Stress evolution in Alaska, US

Exchange Visitor, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, USA July – September, 2003

・3-D wave propagation

Exchange Visitor, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, USA July – September, 2002

・1-D wave propagation

・Ray tracing

AWARD AND GRANTS

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・Future Tech Award from Ministry of Science and Technology, 2019;

・2015-2016 Best Reviewer Award by Terr. Atmos. Ocean. Sci. Journal, 2019;

・Best Presentation Award of the 2013 Young Scientists’ Conference on Integrated Research on Disaster Risk, Future Earth, and Sustainability, 2013;

・Best Postdoctoral Paper Award from National Science Council, 2013;

・Visiting researcher grant from Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, 2012;

・2012 Best Reviewer Award by Terr. Atmos. Ocean. Sci. Journal, 2012;

・Travel grant for the ESF-LFUI Conference from European Science Foundation, 2011;

・Travel grant for the Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting from Chinese Geophysical society, 2006;

・Ph. D. Thesis Award of College of Earth Science National Central University, 2006;

・Travel grant for the Chapman Conference Active Tectonics and Seismic Potential of Alaska from American Geophysical Union, 2006; and

・Scholarship for visiting U.S. Geological Survey from National Science Council, 2005.

PUBLICATIONS IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS

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Jia-Cian Gao, Yi-Hsuan Tseng, and Chung-Han Chan*, 2022: Validation of the probabilistic seismic hazard assessment by the Taiwan Earthquake Model through comparison with strong ground motion observations, Seismol. Res. Lett., https://doi.org/10.1785/0220210186. IF: 3.75, cite(s): 0.

Liqing Jiao, Chung-Han Chan*, Luc Scholtès, Aurélia Hubert-Ferrari, Frédéric-Victor Donzé, Paul Tapponnier, accepted: Discrete element modeling of a subduction zone with a seafloor irregularity and its impact on the seismic cycle, Acta Geologica Sinica. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-6724.14935. IF: 1.89, cite(s): 0.

Chang, Chieh-Chen, Chih-Yu Chang, and Chung-Han Chan*, 2022: Quantifying the probability and uncertainty of multiple-structure rupture and recurrence intervals in Taiwan. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences Discussions, 1-22., cite(s): 0.

Gao, Jia-Cian, Chung-Han Chan, and Chyi-Tyi Lee, 2021: Site-dependent ground-motion prediction equations and uniform hazard response spectra. Engineering Geology, 106241. IF: 6.76, cite(s): 1.

Chung-Han Chan, Kuo-Fong Ma, J. Bruce H. Shyu, Ya-Ting Lee, Yu-Ju Wang, Jia-Cian Gao, Yin-Tung Yen, and Ruey-Juin Rau, 2020: Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment for Taiwan: TEM PSHA2020, Earthquake Spectra, 36(S1): 137-159, DOI: 10.1177/8755293020951587. IF: 1.93, cite(s): 5.

Ornthammarath, Teraphan, Pennung Warnitchai, Chung-Han Chan, Yu Wang, Xuhua Shi, Phuong Hong Nguyen, Le Minh Nguyen, Suwith Kosuwan, Myo Thant, 2020: Probabilistic seismic hazard assessments for Northern Southeast Asia (Indochina): Smooth seismicity approach. Earthquake Spectra, https://doi.org/10.1177/8755293020942528. IF: 1.93, cite(s): 3.

Jiao, Liqing, Chung-Han Chan*, Luc Scholtès, Aurélia Hubert-Ferrari, Frédéric-Victor Donzé, Paul Tapponnier, 2020: Discrete element modeling of a subduction zone with a seafloor irregularity and its impact on the seismic cycle, Solid Earth Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/se-2020-41. IF: , cite(s): 2.

*Corresponding author

Qiu, Qiu, Linlin Li, Ya-Ju Hsu, Yu Wang, Chung-Han Chan, and Adam D. Switzer, 2019: Revised earthquake sources along Manila Trench for tsunami hazard assessment in the South China Sea, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 19, 1565–1583, doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-1565-2019. IF: 3.102, cite(s): 8.

Qiu, Qiang, Chan, Chung-Han*, 2019: Coulomb stress perturbation after great earthquakes in the Sumatran subduction zone: Potential impacts in the surrounding region, J. of Asian Earth Sciences., 180, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2019.103869. IF: 3.059, cite(s): 5.

*Corresponding author

Wu, Hung-Yu, Chung-Han Chan, Kazuya Shiraishi, Adam Wspanialy, Takamitsu Sugihara, and Yoshinori Sanada, 2019: Observed Stress State for the IODP Site C0002 and Implication to the Stress Field of the Nankai Trough Subduction Zone, Tectonophys, 765, 1-10. IF: 3.048, cite(s): 3.

Qiu, Q., Li, Linin, Hsu, Ya-Ju, Wang, Yu, Chan, Chung-Han, and Switzer, Adam D., 2019: Revised earthquake sources along Manila Trench for tsunami hazard assessment in the South China Sea, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-2019-116.

Chan, Chung-Han, Kuo-Fong Ma, Ya-Ting Lee, and Yu-Ju Wang, 2019: Rethinking Seismic Source Model of Probabilistic Hazard Assessment in Taiwan after the 2018 Hualien, Taiwan, Earthquake Sequence, Seismological Research Letters, 90 (1), pages 88-96. IF: 3.131, cite(s): 6.

Li, Linlin, Adam D. Switzer, Yu Wang, Chung-Han Chan, Qiang Qiu, and Robert Weiss, 2018: A modest 0.5-m rise in sea level will double the tsunami hazard in Macau. Science advances, 4(8), eaat1180. IF: 13.117, cite(s): 41.

Shi, Xuhua, Yu Wang, Kerry Sieh, Ray Weldon, Lujia Feng, Chung-Han Chan, and Jing Liu‐Zeng, 2018: Fault slip and GPS velocities across the Shan Plateau define a curved southwestward crustal motion around the eastern Himalayan syntaxis. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123(3), 2502-2518. IF: 3.639, cite(s): 30.

* Top Downloaded Article 2017-2018

Chan, Chung-Han, Yu Wang, Yu-Ju Wang, and Ya-Ting Lee, 2017: Seismic hazard assessment over time: Modelling earthquakes in Taiwan. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 107 (5), pp2342-2352. IF: 2.274, cite(s): 5.

Lee, Ya-Ting, Yu-Ju Wang, Chung-Han Chan, and Kuo-Fong Ma, 2017: The 2016 Meinong earthquake to TEM PSHA2015. Terr. Atmo. and Ocea. Sci., 28(5), pp703-713, doi: 10.3319/TAO.2016.12.28.02. IF: 0.703, cite(s): 13.

Wang, Yu, Shengji Wei, Xin Wang, Eric O. Lindsey, Felix Tongkul, Paul Tapponnier, Kyle Bradley, Chung-Han Chan, Emma M. Hill, and Kerry, 2017: The 2015 Mw 6.0 Mt. Kinabalu earthquake: an infrequent fault rupture within the Crocker fault system of East Malaysia. Geosci. Lett., 4:6. doi:10.1186/s40562-017-0072-9. IF: 2.283, cite(s): 22.

Lin, Kuan-Hui Elaine, Thung-Hong Lin and Bo-Wei Hu, Yi-Chun Chang, Chin-Hsun Yeh, Chung-Han Chan, and Gee-Yu Liu, 2017: Earthquake, Housing Damage, and Fatality: A Causal-effect Analysis of Seismic Risk in Chi-Chi Earthquake, J. of City and Planning, 44(1), pp83-112, in Chinese.

Chan, Chung-Han, Yu Wang, Rafael Almeida, R.B.S. Yadav, 2017: Enhanced stress and changes to regional seismicity due to the 2015 M_w 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal, earthquake on the neighbouring segments of the Main Himalayan Thrust, J. of Asian Earth Sciences, 133, doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2016.03.004. IF: 3.059, cite(s): 11.

PROJECTS IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS

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A forecasting model for earthquake sequence: Time, space, and magnitude, funded by Central Weather Bureau, Taiwan, 2022, PI

TaiWan AI-based Management Strategy, TWAI, for Earth and Environmental Disasters, funded by Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, 2021-2025, co-researcher

Assess earthquake early warning blind zones and secondary geological disasters, funded by Central Weather Bureau, Taiwan, 2021, co-PI

Taiwan Earthquake Model, funded by Ministry of Education, Taiwan, and the Global Earthquake Model, 2020-now, co-PI

Assess earthquake early warning blind zones and secondary geological disasters, funded by Central Weather Bureau, Taiwan, 2021, PI

Multiple-segment rupture and earthquake probability in fault system, funded by Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, 2020-2023, PI

Earthquake-Disaster & Risk Evaluation and Management Center, funded by Ministry of Education, Taiwan, 2020-now, Deputy Director.

Bagan/NyaungU area to develop seismic hazard and risk assessment map, funded by Department of Archaeology, Bagan, Myanmar, 2018-2019, Collaborator.

Earthquake-Disaster & Risk Evaluation and Management Center, funded by Ministry of Education, Taiwan, 2018-2019, Collaborator.

Probabilistic seismic and tsunami hazard assessment for Southeast Asia, funded by Earth Observatory of Singapore, Singapore, 2018-2022, Co-Investigators.

Probabilistic seismic hazard assessment for Southeast Asia, funded by Earth Observatory of Singapore, Singapore, 2015-2018, Co-Investigators.

INVITED SPEECHES AND COURSES LECTURER IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS

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Invited Lecture at the Chinese Culture University, 2022;

Invited Lecture in the Taiwan Earthquake Center Annual Meeting, 2022;

Invited Lecture in the RAA Cat Risk Management 2021 Seminar, 2021;

Lecturer in the Training Course on Taiwan Earthquake Loss Estimation System, Taiwan, 2020;

Invited Lecture at the National Cheng Kung University, 2020;

Invited Lecture at the Institute of Crustal Dynamics, CEA, 2019;

Invited Lecture at the Southeast University, 2019;

Invited Lecture at the Nanjing University, 2019;

Invited Lecture in the International Conference in Commemoration of 20^th Anniversary of the 1999 Chi-Chi Earthquake, 2019;

Keynote speech in the 3^rd Taiwan Earthquake Center Annual Meeting, 2018;

Lecturer in the Training Course on Earthquake Hazard and Risk Assessment in East Asia, Taiwan, 2018

Lecturer in the Training Course of Seismic Hazard and Risk Assessment for Bagan/Nuaung U Area, Myanmar, 2018;

Lecturer in the Training Course on Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment for Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Vietnam, 2018;

Invited Lecture in the 2018 JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting, 2018;

Invited Lecture in the 4^th International Conference on Continental Earthquakes, 2018;

Invited Lecture at the College of Civil Engineering of Chong Qing University, 2018;

Invited Lecture at the Seminar on Geohazards in CLMTV countries, Thailand, 2017;

Lecturer in the Training Course on Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment for the JGC Corporation, Japan, 2017;

Training Course of Myanmar Seismic Hazard Assessment at Myanmar Earthquake Committee, Myanmar, 2017;

Invited Lecture at State Key Laboratory of Geodesy and Earth’s Dynamics, Chinese Academy of Science, 2016.

CONFERENCE/SEMINAR ORGANIZATION IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS

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Co-organizer of the 2021 Taiwan-Japan-New Zealand Workshop on Earthquake Hazard, 2021;

Member of the Chinese Taipei Geophysical Society Executive Committee in 2020-now;

Leader of the AGU Tectonophysics Fall Meeting Program Committee in 2020;

Member of the AGU Tectonophysics Fall Meeting Program Committee in 2018 and 2019;

Co-convener and chairman of the session that garnered the highest number of abstracts in the Solid Earth Section in the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society 2019, 2019;

Convener of the 2018 AGU Fall Meeting, 2018;

Judge of the Outstanding Student Paper Award in the 2018 AGU Fall Meeting, 2018;

Primary convener of the 2018 AGU Fall Meeting, 2018;

Convener of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society 2018, 2018;

Co-convener of the 2018 JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting, 2018;

Judge of the Outstanding Student Paper Award in the 2017 AGU Fall Meeting, 2017;

Co-organizer of the 2017 Southeast Asia Seismic Hazard Assessment Meeting, 2017;

Chairman of the 2017 Taiwan-Japan-New Zealand Seismic Hazard Assessment Meeting, 2017;

Co-convener and chairman of the session that garnered the highest number of abstracts in the Solid Earth Section in the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society 2017, 2017;

Judge of the Outstanding Student Presentation Award in the 2017 JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting, 2017;

Chairman of the 2017 JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting, 2017;

REVIEW FOR SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS

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Advances In Geosciences;

Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment;

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America;

Earth, Planets and Space;

Earthquake Science;

Frontiers Earth Science;

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems;

Geological Society of America Bulletin;

Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk;

Geophysical Journal International;

Geophysical Research Letters;

Journal of African Earth Sciences;

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences;

Journal of Disaster Management;

Journal of Geophysical Research;

Natural Hazards;

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences;

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors;

Pure and Applied Geophysics;

Remote Sensing;

Scientific Reports;

Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences; and Tectonophysics. 

SCIENTIFIC AND COMPUTATION SKILLS

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Seismology:

Earthquake forecasting;

Stress evolution;

Earthquake precursor;

Statistical seismology; and

Earthquake relocation.

Engineering Seismology:

Probabilistic seismic hazard assessment;

Probabilistic seismic risk assessment;

Building exposure database; and

Ground motion scenario.

Computer Operation:

System: Macintosh OS, Windows, LINUX, and UNIX;

Graphics: GMT and Illustrator;

Programming language: FORTRAN and Python;

              Statistics: Excel, MATLAB, and ZMAP; and

Presentation: Keynote and PowerPoint.

MEDIA INTERVIEWS

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Economy Daily News interview in 2022 (in Chinese);

National Education Radio interview in 2020 (in Chinese);

Rhythms Monthly magazine interview in 2017 (in Chinese);

TTV (TV channel in Taiwan) program interview in 2011 (in Chinese);

TVBS (TV channel in Taiwan) news interview in 2005 (in Chinese); and

KTSF (TV channel in San Francisco Bay Area, US) news interview in 2005 (in Chinese).