Chun-che Chang (張俊哲), Ph.D., Cantab.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND. Chun-che Chang received his bachelor’s degree from the Department of Agricultural Chemistry at National Taiwan University (NTU), followed by a master’s degree in science from NTU’s Institute of Biological Chemistry. Prior to pursuing his Ph.D. studies in the United Kingdom, he was awarded a prestigious scholarship sponsored by Taiwan’s Ministry of Education. He also considers his two years of military service in the Marine Corps, along with post-military training at the Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau Academy, as an integral part of his educational journey.

ACADEMIC TRAINING AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT. Supported by a government scholarship, Chun-che Chang completed his Ph.D. at the Wellcome/CRC Institute (now the Gurdon Institute) and the Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge, UK. Inspired by his Ph.D. supervisor, Professor Michael Akam, he began his scientific journey in evolutionary and developmental biology, focusing on germ cell specification in the grasshopper Schistocerca gregaria. Following postdoctoral training in human genetics at the University of Leicester, UK, and in zebrafish developmental biology at Academia Sinica in Taiwan, he joined the Department of Entomology at NTU as a faculty member in 2003. He served as Department Chair from 2016 to 2019 and currently holds dual appointments as Professor and Director of the National Taiwan University Press. Throughout his academic career, Chang has received the NTU Teaching Excellence Award eleven times (2006–2025) and was honored with the Outstanding Teaching Award in 2018.

KEY FINDINGS AND AWARDS. Chang’s contributions to both education and research were first recognized in 2006 when he was named an Outstanding Junior Investigator by NTU’s College of Bio-Resources and Agriculture. His research group has led pioneering studies on developmental gene regulation in asexual (parthenogenetic) and viviparous aphids. In Taiwan, his team established aphids as a model organism for developmental biology. At the molecular level, they discovered the presence of germ plasm in uncellularized embryos of asexual aphids—a finding that overturns the long-standing belief that hemimetabolous insects lack maternally-inherited germ plasm for germ cell specification. Chang has been an active member of the International Aphid Genome Consortium (IAGC) since 2008 and is the founder of the Taiwan Aphid Genome Consortium (TAGC). From 2002 to the present, his research has been featured on the covers of international journals nine times. Two of these cover images were selected as iconic representations by their respective journals, underscoring the international recognition of his scientific identity and innovation. Since January 2024, Chang has served on the editorial board of Developmental Biology, a journal of the Society for Developmental Biology. In October 2024, he began his term as Associate Editor of Insect Molecular Biology. In April 2025, Chang was elected a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society (FRES), in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of entomology.

求學歷程
張俊哲於國立臺灣大學農業化學系取得學士學位，隨後在臺大理學院生化科學研究所取得碩士學位。赴英攻讀博士學位前，他獲得臺灣教育部提供的公費留考獎學金 (一般農學組榜首)。此外，他認為在海軍陸戰隊服役兩年，以及退伍後進入法務部調查局 (DNA 鑑識科學) 受訓的經歷，也是他教育歷程中不可或缺的一環。

學術訓練與職涯發展
在政府獎學金的資助下，張俊哲於英國劍橋大學遺傳學系與 Wellcome/CRC Institute（現為 Gurdon Institute）完成博士學位。在其指導教授 Michael Akam 教授的啟發下，他展開了演化與發育生物學的研究生涯，專注於研究蚱蜢 (Schistocerca gregaria) 的生殖細胞命運決定機制。博士後期間，他先於英國萊斯特大學進行人類遺傳學研究，再於中央研究院進行斑馬魚發育生物學的研究。2003 年，他加入臺大昆蟲學系任教，並於 2016 至 2019 年擔任系主任。目前，他同時擔任國立臺灣大學昆蟲學系教授與臺大出版中心主任。學術生涯期間，他曾 11 次（2006–2025）獲得臺大教學優良獎，並於 2018 年榮獲教學特優獎。

研究貢獻與榮譽
張俊哲在教育與研究上的貢獻，早在 2006 年即獲臺大生物資源暨農學院「年輕學者研究獎」的肯定。他的研究團隊率先對孤雌胎生蚜蟲之發育基因調控進行系統研究，並於臺灣建立蚜蟲作為發育生物學模式生物的基礎。在分子層次上，他們發現未細胞化的孤雌蚜蟲胚胎中存在母源性「生殖漿」(germ plasm)，此一發現推翻過去「不完全變態昆蟲缺乏母源性生殖漿」的主流觀點。自 2008 年起，他成為國際蚜蟲基因體聯盟（International Aphid Genome Consortium, IAGC）成員，並於 2024 年創立臺灣蚜蟲基因體聯盟（Taiwan Aphid Genome Consortium, TAGC）。自 2002 年以來，其研究成果九度登上國際期刊封面，其中兩張更被選為期刊的經典代表封面，展現其研究在國際間的能見度與創新性。自 2024 年 1 月起，他擔任《Developmental Biology》期刊（美國發育生物學學會之官方期刊）編輯委員；2024 年 10 月起，擔任《Insect Molecular Biology》期刊副主編。2025 年 4 月，因其在昆蟲學領域的傑出貢獻，他獲選為英國皇家昆蟲學會會士（Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society, FRES）。