Professor Chu earned his Ph. D. in Materials Science & Engineering from National Tsing Hua University in 2004. He then joined the University of California, Berkeley, as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2008, he was appointed an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at National Chiao Tung University. He was promoted to associate professor in 2015 and to full professor in 2018. In 2019, he was honored with the title of distinguished professor. Since 2013, he has held an adjunct position at the Academia Sinica. In 2014, he began an adjunct appointment in the Department of Electrophysics at National Chiao Tung University. From 2016 to 2018, he served as an adjunct at the Material and Chemical Research Laboratories of the Industrial Technology Research Institute and at the International College of Semiconductor Technology at National Chiao Tung University. In 2019, he became an associate editor for ACS Applied Electronic Materials, and in 2025, he was promoted to executive editor. In 2022, he returned to National Tsing Hua University. From July 2022 to January 2025, he served as the director of the Center for Nanotechnology, Materials Science, and Microsystems. From May 2024 to January 2025, he also served as Associate Vice President of R&D at National Tsing Hua University. He was promoted to chair professor in the summer of 2024. As of 2022, he holds joint appointments with the College of Semiconductor Research and the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at National Tsing Hua University, the Department of Electrophysics at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, and the Institute of Physics at Academia Sinica. Starting in 2025, he held an adjunct position at the Center for Nanotechnology, Materials Science, and Microsystems at National Tsing Hua University. His research primarily focuses on functional oxides and strongly correlated electron systems. He has extensive experience using advanced characterization techniques to understand and manipulate functional oxide heterostructures, nanostructures, and interfaces. His goal is to develop pathways for utilizing high-quality oxide heteroepitaxy in soft, transparent technology. Currently, he is a pioneer in this research area, with the most publications. He has authored over 400 papers (Google Scholar: over 38000 citations, h-index = 94, Scopus: over 31000 citations, h-index=85) in academic journals, including more than 35 papers in the Science or Nature series.

Our laboratory is dedicated to the frontier of functional oxides and strongly correlated electron systems. Leveraging advanced thin film technology, we manipulate materials at the atomic scale to explore novel physical phenomena and develop next-generation electronic, optoelectronic, and energy devices,. Our research strategy is defined by two distinct yet complementary epitaxial growth mechanisms:

1. Conventional Heteroepitaxy: Strain Engineering & High-Entropy Design
On rigid substrates (e.g., SrTiO₃, Sapphire), we utilize lattice mismatch and thermodynamic instability as powerful tools for material design: High-Entropy Oxides, Self-Assembled Nanostructures, 2D Semiconductor Integration.

2. van der Waals (vdW) Epitaxy: The "MICAtronics" Platform
To overcome the intrinsic brittleness of oxides, our lab pioneered MICAtronics—using muscovite mica as a flexible, transparent substrate. The weak vdW interaction allows for high-quality epitaxy despite large lattice mismatches, enabling flexible electronics: Flexible Electronics & Energy Storage, Mechanically Tunable Functionalities, Intercalation & 3D Mesocrystals.