Principle Investigator

Biography

I was born in South Korea and moved to Canada at a young age. I attended the University of Guelph (Chemistry, Co-op program) and received my B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree under the supervision of Prof. William Tam studying transition metal-catalyzed reactions. I then moved to McGill University and joined Prof. Chao-Jun Li's group to conduct research in Green Chemistry. After earning my Ph.D. degree, I went to Japan and entered the laboratory headed by Shu̅ Kobayashi at The University of Tokyo as a JSPS postdoctoral fellow, where I developed various metal nanoparticle catalyzed oxidative coupling reactions. I was then hired as a staff member of the Kobayashi group (Assistant Professor, Lecturer). My research during this time involved: cross-coupling reactions under SET conditions, multi-component coupling reactions with carbon dioxide, and asymmetric synthesis with chiral heterogeneous catalysts.

In 2020, I took up an independent position at the National Taiwan Univeristy as an Assistant Professor. At NTU, our goal is to develop new synthetic methods to access bioisosteric compounds.