Academia Sinica
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). Founded in Nanking, the academy supports research activities in a wide variety of disciplines, ranging from 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.
| 中央研究院 (Chinese) | |
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| Formed | 1928 (in Nanking) 1949 (in Taipei) |
| Headquarters | Nangang, Taipei 25°2′45″N 121°36′37″E |
| Employees | ~5,800 (incl. 976 principal investigators, 111 research specialists, 775 post-docs, 2,150 students) |
| Annual budget | 12.5 billion NTD ($400 million) (2020) |
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| Parent agency | Office of the President |
| Website | sinica.edu.tw/en |
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| Chinese | 中央硏究院 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 中央硏究院 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 中央硏究院 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | "Central Research Academy" | ||||||||||||||||||
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Academia Sinica is ranked 144th in Nature Publishing Index - 2014 Global Top 200 and 18th in Reuters World's Most Innovative Research Institutions of 2019. The current president since 2016 is James C. Liao, an expert in metabolic engineering, systems biology and synthetic biology.