Yu-Ju Chen obtained her Ph.D. from Iowa State University. After postdoctoral research work at the Ames Laboratory and National Tsing Hua University, she joined the Institute of Chemistry of Academia Sinica in 1999 and is currently a Distinguished Resaerch Fellow. Her research focuses on methodology development of mass spectrometry-based proteomics by integrating functionalized nanomaterial, advanced mass spectrometry and bioinformatics. In particular, she is interested in applying these tools for in-depth exploration of the under-represented membrane proteome and post-translational modificom and their application to delineate the proteome network in biology and diseases. Her work has been published in > 150 articles, including Cell, Mol. Cell. Proteomics. Proteomics, J Proteome Res., Anal. Chem., JACS., Nat. Commun., Cancer Cell, Plant Cell and PNAS. She is Associate Editor of “Analytical Chemistry”, Executive Advisory Board of “Proteomics” . President of Human Proteome Organization (HUPO), and Vice President of the The Chemical Society located in Taipei