Ph.D. Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
- Professor of Chemistry, The James Franck Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago (until August 1974)
- Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley (until August 1991)
- Principal Investigator, Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (until August 1997)
- University Professor, University of California, California (until May 1994)
- Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica (- present)
- President, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan (until October 2006)
- University Professor Emeritus, University of California, California (-present)
- Graduate Professor, University of California, Berkeley, California (until June 1997)
| August 1990 | Member, Board of Trustees, California Institute of Technology, USA (until July 1995) |
| August 1991 | Member, President's Advisory Board, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong (until July 1992) |
| September 1993 | Chairman, Visiting Committee, Department of Chemistry, Harvard University, USA (until August 1994) |
| September 1994 | Chairman, Educational Reform Council, Executive Yuan, Taipei, Taiwan |
| March 2005 | Member, International Advisory Board of Nagoya University (until March, 2009) |
| December 2006 | Member, Advisory Committee of Development Plan for World Class Universities and Research Centers of Excellence, Ministry of Education, Taipei, Taiwan (until May 2008) |
| July 2007 | Member, Board of Governors, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Promotion Corporation (until October 2011) |
| September 2009 | Establishing Member of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology School Corporation (until October 2011) |
| November 2011 | Member, Board of Governors, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology School Corporation (-present) |
| December 1986 | Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
