Employment：
Postdoctoral Investigator, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts, USA (1988-1989)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, Florida, USA (1989-1991)
Research Scientist II, Florida Institute of Technology, Florida, USA (1991-1993)
Associate Professor, Institute of Marine Geology and Chemistry, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (1994-1998)
Professor, Department of Oceanography (formerly Institute of Marine Geology and Chemistry), National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (1998-present)
Research Interest and expertise：
Coastal geology, coastal and estuarine sediment dynamics, coastal change, submarine canyon oceanography, marine hyperpycnal flow and sedimentation
Leadership：
Leader of the interdisciplinary research team ‘Fate of Terrestrial Sediment in High-Yield Particle Exporting River-sea Systems (FATES-HYPERS) （2012-）
刘祖乾教授个人主页：
http://ocean.nsysu.edu.tw/files/15-1252-75407,c9285-1.php?Lang=zh-tw
