Educational background
1997/09-2001/06 B.S. Department of Earth Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei,Taiwan
2001/09-2003/06 M.S. Institute of Earth Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei,Taiwan
2006/09-2012/12 Ph.D Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei,Taiwan,
2008/09-2012/12 Ph.D Département des sciences de la Terre et de l'environnement, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France

Professional Experience
2005/03-2005/12 Research Assistant, Paleomagnetism & Magnetism Laboratory, Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
2007/02-2007/06 Teaching Assistant, Investigating the Earth, National Taiwan University
2007/07- Teaching Assistant: Summer Geological Investigation, National Taiwan University
2007/09-2008/01 Teaching Assistant: Earth Materials LAB., National Taiwan University
2008/02-2008/06 Teaching Assistant: Investigating the Earth, National Taiwan University
2008/07- Teaching Assistant: Summer Geological Investigation, National Taiwan University
2010/09-2011/06 Teaching Assistant: Investigating the Earth, National Taiwan University
2011/09-2012/06 Teaching Assistant: Investigating the Earth, National Taiwan University

2013/01-2014/07 Postdoctoral, Taiwan Normal University

2014/08 - 2017/01 Postdoctoral, Taiwan University

2017/01 -2022/11 Assistant Professor, Department of Marine Science and Engineering, SUSTech

2022/12-Present   Associate Professor， Department of Marine Science and Engineering, SUSTech

Papers and patents
1. Lee, T.-Q., Y.-M. Chou, K.-J. Lee and W.-S. Chen (2003) Magnetic Fabric Analysis of sediments from Seismic Trenching Site at Chiaorong Elementary School, Wufeng, Taichung County. West Pacific Earth Sciences, 3 (1), p. 47-56.
2. Chou, Y.-M., T.-Q. Lee, S.-R. Song and K.-R. Chen (2011) Magnetostratigraphy of marine sediment core MD01-2414 from Okhotsk Sea and its paleoenvironmental implications, Marine Geology, v. 284, no. 1-4, p. 149-157. (SCI) (NSC91-2611-M-001-013)
3. Chou, Y.-M., S.-R. Song, C. Aubourg, T.-Q. Lee, A.-M. Boullier, Y.-F. Song, E.-C. Yeh, L.-W. Kuo, and C.-Y. Wang (2011) An earthquake slip zone is a magnetic recorder, Geology, doi:10.1130/g32864.1. (SCI) (NSC97-2627-M-213-001)
4. Chou, Y.-M., S.-R. Song, C. Aubourg, Y.-F. Song, A.-M. Boullier, T.-Q. Lee, M. Evans, E.-C. Yeh, and Y.-M. Chen (2012), Pyrite alteration and neoformed magnetic minerals in the fault zone of the Chi-Chi earthquake (Mw 7.6, 1999): Evidence for frictional heating and co-seismic fluids, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 13, Q08002, doi:10.1029/2012GC004120. (SCI) (NSC 97-2627-M-213-001)
5. Tsao, T.-M., Wang, Y.-N., Chen, Y.-M., Chou, Y.-M., Wang, M.-K., (2013), Automated Ultrafiltration Device for Environmental Nanoparticle Research and Implications: A Review, Micromachines, 4, 215-231, doi:10.3390/mi4020215. (SCIE).
6. Tsao, T.-M., Chen, Y.-M., Sheu, H.-S., Tzou, Y.-M., Chou, Y.-M., Wang, M.-K., (2013), Separation and identification of soil nanoparticles by conventional and synchrotron X-ray diffraction, Appl. Clay Sci., 85, 1-7, doi:10.1016/j.clay.2013.09.005. (SCI)
7. Chou, Y.-M., S.-R. Song, T.-M. Tsao, C.-S. Lin, M.-K. Wang, J.-J. Lee, and F.G. Chen (2014), Identification and Tectonic Implications of Nano-particle Quartz (<50 nm) by Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction in the Chelungpu Fault Gouge, Taiwan, Tectonophysics, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2013.07.021. (SCI) (NSC 97-2627-M-213-001)
8. Liu, D.-L., H.-B. Li, T.-Q. Lee, Y.-M. Chou, S.-R. Song, Z.-M. Sun, M.-L. Chevalier, and J.-L. Si (2014), Primary rock magnetism for the Wenchuan earthquake fault zone at Jiulong outcrop, Sichuan Province, China, Tectonophysics, doi:10.1016/j.teco.2013.08.028. (SCI)
9. Chou, Y.-M., S.-R. Song, C. Aubourg, T.-Q. Lee, Y.-F. Song, and E.-C. Yeh (2014), Quantitative Modeling of the Newly Formed Magnetic Minerals in the Fault Gouge of 1999 Chi-Chi Earthquake (Mw 7.6), Taiwan, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 119, doi:10.1002/2014JB011098. (SCI) (NSC97-2627-M-213-001)
10. Korren, C.S., E. C. Ferré, E.-C. Yeh, Y.-M. Chou, and H.-T. Chu (2016), Seismic rupture parameters deduced from a Pliocene fault pseudotachylyte in Taiwan, in Thomas, M.Y., et al., eds., Evolution of fault zone properties and dynamic processes during seismic rupture: American Geophysical Union Geophysical Monograph (in press).
11. Ferré, E. C., E.-C. Yeh, Y.-M. Chou, R. L. Kuo, H.-T. Chu, and C. S. Korren (2016), Brushlines in fault pseudotachylytes: A new criterion for coseismic slip direction, Geology, 44(5), 395-398, doi: 10.1130/g37751.1.
12. Ferré, E. C., Y.-M. Chou, R.-L. Kuo, E.-C. Yeh, N. R. Leibovitz, A. L. Meado, L. Campbell, and J. W. Geissman (2016), Deciphering viscous flow of frictional melts with the mini-AMS method, J. Struc. Geology. (Submitted)

Undertaking project
NSRRC-2015-3-110-1 – Beamline 14A1 FTIR Spectroscopic analyses of skeleton of blue coral Heliopora Coerulea
NSRRC-2015-2-059-2 – Beamline 01B1 TXM Internal structure observation of pseudotachylytes in the Tananao metamorphic
complex, Taiwan