Fon-Che Liu received a first degree in Mathematics from Taiwan University (1962) and Ph.D. degree from Purdue University (1968). He joined the Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica in 1971 as Associate Research Fellow and was promoted to Research Fellow in 1973. He was Professor of Mathematics at Taiwan University between 1974 and 2005, and has been Visiting Professor at Purdue University and Wayne State University. Until 2000 he held the role of Director, Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sineca-Taipei, and was President of the Chinese Mathematical Society Taipei in the early 1990s.
