Dr. Young-Tae Chang

Young-Tae Chang was born in Busan, Korea in 1968. He studied chemistry at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea, and received his B.S. in 1991. After national service in Korean army, he started his graduate study at POSTECH and received M.S. in 1995 and Ph. D. in 1997 under the supervision of PRos. Sung-Kee Chung, working on the divergent synthesis of all possible regioisomers of myo-inositol phosphates. He did his postdoctoral work with Peter Schultz at UC Berkeley and the Scripps Research Insititute. In 2000, he started the academic career at NYU and promoted to Assoc. Prof. in 2005 with tenure. In 2007 he moved to National University of Singapore. He was full professor of Chemistry and leader of Medicinal Chemistry Program of NUS. In 2017, he came back to POSTCH chemistry and joined Center for Self-assembly and Complexity (CSC), Institute for Basic Science (IBS)  as an Associate Director. He published more than 380 papers, 2 books and filed 50 patents so far.