# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-c-liao
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:17:27.042Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-c-liao"
name: "James C. Liao"
slug: "james-c-liao"
description: "Liao Chun-Chih, also known by his English name James Liao, is a Taiwanese-American chemical engineer and metabolic engineer who has been the president of Academia Sinica (AS) since 2016."
tagline: "Synthetic biologist and metabolic engineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JamesCLiao_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1958"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.27
  momentum:             7.151306062099557
  historical:           6.117226666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BB%96%E4%BF%8A%E6%99%BA"
    title: "廖俊智"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_C._Liao"
    title: "James C. Liao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_C._Liao"
    title: "James C. Liao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BB%96%E4%BF%8A%E6%99%BA"
    title: "廖俊智"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_C._Liao"
    title: "James C. Liao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%8F%D0%BE%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81_(%D0%B1%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3)"
    title: "Ляо, Джеймс (биолог)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19668148"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump