Professor Lee Lou-Chuang received his Ph.D. degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1975. Since 2017, Professor Lee has been appointed as a Distinguished Professor of M.U.S.T. where he has given lectures to the “M.U.S.T. Great Masters Seminars”, and made important contributions to cultivating young teachers and students at the Space Science Institute of M.U.S.T. Professor Lee performed research and teaching at the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, University of Maryland, University of Alaska, National Cheng Kung University, National Central University, and Academia Sinica. He served as Director of the National Space Program Office, the first President of the National Applied Research Laboratories, the President of National Central University, and the Minister of the National Science Council. Professor Lee has published more than 300 scientific papers as well as three academic monographs. He has received many awards, including the Fullbright Scholar Award, the Presidential Science Prize (the highest honour in science in Taiwan), and the Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Prize for Plasma Physics. Prof. Lee is an Academician of Academia Sinica (AS), elected member of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), and elected foreign member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE). During his career, he developed several new theories to explain observed space phenomena. His major research achievements include: (a) proposing in 1976 that the interstellar medium has a Kolmogorov turbulence spectrum based on scintillation data, (b) the electron cyclotron maser theory for the generation of auroral kilometric radiation, (c) the multiple X-line reconnection (MXR) model for magnetic flux transfer events, (d) the formation mechanism of solar prominences, (e) a new mechanism for solar coronal heating, and (f) the discovery of "gigantic jets" in the Earth’s upper atmosphere.