WJC received his Ph.D. at University of Paris 6 (UPMC) in 2001. He holds his present position as a Full Professor at National Taiwan University (NTU) since August 1, 2017. He is currently a faculty member of the Institute of Oceanography (IO) from the College of Science, and the Department of Life Sciences (joint position), NTU. He is the principal investigator of the marine biodiversity and phylogenomics laboratory established at IO NTU since 2009. Current lab members include 3 Ph.D. students, 3 master students, and 1 research assistant. WJC's work and research interests can be summarized as the application of molecular and computational tools within a phylogenetic framework to interpret organismal diversity and to understand mechanisms of evolution. Five axes of research ongoing in his lab are: phylogeny (evolutionary relationships) of ray-finned fishes and marine gastropods at both large and small scales; evolutionary genomics (especially, the studies on species diversification in relation to gene/genome duplications); biogeography (with emphasis on marine species from the Indo-West Pacific); marine biodiversity exploration (coral reefs and tropic deep-sea benthos); and marine conservation.