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BATES, Roderick W.
Assistant Professor
B.Sc. (Imperial College), Ph.D. (Imperial College)
Post-doc: Colorado State

Phone: (65) 6316 8907
E-mail: roderick@ntu.edu.sg
Office: SPMS-CBC-04-08
* Development of reactions for the synthesis of natural products and other interesting molecules, particularly using transition metals, and focussing on the control of stereochemistry.

CHAN, Philip Wai Hong
Assistant Professor
B.Sc. (Bristol), Ph.D. (Oxford)
Post-doc: University of Hong Kong, University of Sydney, Tohoku University

Phone: (65) 6316 8760
E-mail: waihong@ntu.edu.sg
Office: SPMS-CBC-04-17
* Development of new asymmetric organo- and organometallic-catalyzed methodologies of broad utility to organic synthesis.
* Target synthesis of natural and synthetic products.
* Applications of Organic Chemistry to Medicinal Chemistry and Materials Science.

CHEN, Hongyu
Assistant Professor
B.Sc. (USTC), Ph.D. (Yale),
Post-doc. (Cornell)

Phone: (65) 6316 8795
E-mail: hongyuchen@ntu.edu.sg
Office: SPMS-CBC-03-02
* Bioinorganic Modeling of Photosystem II
* Mn-based water oxidation catalysts
* Encapsulation of nanoparticles
* Nanoparticle-based artificial photosynthetic system
CHI, Robin Yonggui
Nanyang Assistant Professor
B.Sc. (Hong Kong Baptist Univ.), Ph.D. (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison), Post-doc (Univ. of California-Berkeley)

Phone: (65) 65927769
E-mail: robinchi@ntu.edu.sg
Office: SPMS-CBC-06-19
* Catalysis & Organic Synthesis
* Peptides, Proteins, Polymers
* Nanoscale Structures & Functional Materials

CHIBA, Shunsuke
Assistant Professor
B.Eng. (Waseda University), M.Sc. & Ph.D. (The University of Tokyo)

Phone: (65) 6513 8013
E-mail: shunsuke@ntu.edu.sg
Office: SPMS-CBC-05-05
* Development of Organic Synthetic Reactions
* Synthesis of natural products

CHUA, Guan Leong
Lecturer
B.Sc. (NUS), Ph.D. (NUS)

Phone: (65) 6316 8903
E-mail: guanleong@ntu.edu.sg
Office: SPMS-CBC-05-21
* Organic synthesis with focus on ionic liquids supported strategies and new technologies.

GOH, Lai Yoong
Senior Teaching Fellow
B.Sc. Hons (U.Hongkong), M.Sc. (U. Malaya), D. Sc., Ph.D. (University College London)

Phone: (65) 6316 8792
E-mail: laiyoonggoh@ntu.edu.sg
Office: SPMS-CBC-06-18
* Organotransition metal chemistry with special reference to chromium and ruthenium – Synthetic, structural and reactivity aspects.

HONG, Soon Hyeok
Nanyang Assistant Professor
B.S, M.S (Seoul National Univ), Ph.D. (California Institute of Technology)

Phone: (65) 6513 2747
E-mail: HongSH@ntu.edu.sg
Office: SPMS-CBC-06-21
* Organometallic Catalysis

KIM, Sunggak
Nanyang Professor
B.S. (Seoul National University)
Ph.D. (McGill University)

Phone: (65) 6592 7765
Email: sgkim@ntu.edu.sg
Office: SPMS-CBC-05-01
* Development of new synthetic methodologies, free radical chemistry, organometallic chemistry, and natural product synthesis
KUO, Jer-Lai
Assistant Professor
(Joint appointment with PAP)
B.Sc. (Taiwan), M.Sc. (Taiwan),
PhD (Ohio State)
Post-doc: UPenn

Phone: (65) 6316 8853
E-mail: jlkuo@ntu.edu.sg
Office: SPMS-PAP-04-02
* Larger scale computer simulations via first principle methods, surface adsorption process, order/disorder transitions in ice physics, properties of H-bonded systems, nuclear quantum effects on hydrogen bonding
LEE, Soo Ying
Professor
B.Sc. (Hons. 1, Malaya),
Ph.D. (Chicago),
FSNIC, FRSC, CChem
Post-doc: UCLA

Phone: (65) 6790 3723
E-mail: sooying@ntu.edu.sg
Office: SPMS-CBC-04-02
* Time-dependent vibrational-electronic spectroscopy
* Nonlinear spectroscopy
* Femtosecond broadband stimulated Raman spectroscopy
* Molecular reaction dynamics

LEONG, Weng Kee
Associate Professor
B.A., M.A. (Cambridge U); Dip. Ed. (NIE); M.Sc. (NUS), Ph.D. (Simon Fraser U)

Phone: (65) 6592 7577
E-mail: CHMLWK@ntu.edu.sg
Office: SPMS-CBC-06-07
*Organometallic Clusters
*Bioorganometallic Chemistry
*Catalysis
 
LEUNG, Pak Hing
Professor
Head of Division
B.Sc. (CNAA), Ph.D. (ANU)
Post-doc: Toronto, Chicago

Phone: (65) 6316 8899
E-mail: pakhing@ntu.edu.sg
Office: SPMS-CBC-02-01B
* Asymmetric synthesis and optical resolution of novel P-chiral phosphine ligands
* Gold-phosphine anti-cancer drug
* Asymmetric catalysis

LI, Tianhu
Associate Professor
B.Sc. (Jilin University, China), Ph.D. (SUNY at Stony Brook)

Phone: (65) 6513 7364
E-mail: thli@ntu.edu.sg
Office: SPMS-CBC-04-21
* Design and construction of supercoiled DNA molecules with desired topology and superheliex density
* Development of topoisomerases inhibitors
* Search for new types of deoxyribozymes
* Design and synthesis of G-quadruplex-based anticancer drug candidates

LIU, Xuewei
Assistant Professor
B.Sc. (Beijing),
M.Sc. (Beijing), Ph.D. (USC)
Post-doc: Caltech

Phone: (65) 6316 8901
E-mail: xuewei@ntu.edu.sg
Office: SPMS-CBC-05-17
* Organic, Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology
* Synthetic methodology, Strategy & Synthesis
* Chemical tools for living cells
* Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Delivery
LOH, Teck Peng
Professor
B.Eng. (Tokyo),
M.Eng. (Tokyo), Ph.D. (Harvard)

Phone: (65) 6513 8203
E-mail: teckpeng@ntu.edu.sg
Office: SPMS-CBC-05-20
* Enantioselective reactions
* Development of new synthetic methodology
* Green chemistry
* Total synthesis of natural product

 
MATHEY, François
Nanyang Professor
M.Sc. (Ecole Polytechnique),
Ph.D. (U Paris VI)

Phone: (65) 6513 2731
Email: fmathey@ntu.edu.sg
Office: SPMS-CBC-06-08
* Chemistry of phosphorus-carbon heterocycles
* Carbene-like chemistry of monovalent phosphorus
* Phosphorus analogues of metallocenes
* New phosphorus ligands for homogeneous and asymmetric catalysis
* Organophosphorus materials for optoelectronic applications

NARASAKA, Koichi
Nanyang Professor
B.Sc., M.Sc. & Ph.D. (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Phone: (65) 6316 8900
E-mail: narasaka@ntu.edu.sg
Office: SPMS-CBC-05-07
*Organic Synthesis

 
ORNER, Brendan P.
Assistant Professor
B.S. (Haverford College),
M.S. (Pittsburgh), Ph.D. (Yale)

Phone: (65) 6316 8757
E-mail: orner@ntu.edu.sg
Office: SPMS-CBC-04-19
* Chemical Biology
* Combinatorial Techniques
* Protein Design and Engineering
* Biomaterials

PARK, Cheol-Min
Associate Professor
B.S., Ph.D. (Seoul National Univ), Post-doc (Stanford Univ)

Phone: (65) 6513 2748
E-mail: CMPark@ntu.edu.sg
Office: SPMS-CBC-05-02
* Asymmetric Synthesis
* Total Synthesis of Bioactive Natural Products
* Medicinal Chemistry
 
PHAN, Anh Tuan
Assistant Professor
(Joint appointment with PAP)
B.Sc./M.Sc. (Moscow), M.Sc. (Paris), Ph.D. (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
Post-doc: MSKCC (New York)

Phone: (65) 6514 1915
E-mail: phantuan@ntu.edu.sg
Office: SPMS-PAP-05-04
* Biophysics: Use of physical, chemical and computational methods to investigate and manipulate properties of biomolecules, such as DNA, RNA, and proteins.

PULLARKAT, Sumod A.
Lecturer
B.Sc. (Calicut), M.Sc. & M.Phil. (Annamalai),
Ph.D. (NUS)

Phone: (65) 6316 8906
E-mail: sumod@ntu.edu.sg
Office: SPMS-CBC-06-02
* Development of novel chiral organophosphorous and organoarsenic compounds.
* Asymmetric ligand transformation reactions.


Martin PUMERA
Nanyang Assistant Professor
B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)

Phone: (65) 6316 8796
E-mail: pumera@ntu.edu.sg
Office: SPMS-CBC-04-07
* Analytical Chemistry
* Nanotechnology, Nanomaterials, Materials Chemistry
* Electrochemical NanoBiosensors
* Lab on a chip; Microfluidics, Electrophoresis

SELLOU, Linda
Lecturer
M.Sc. (ENSCL), Ph.D. (Bristol University)
Post-doc: Bristol ChemLabS Outreach

Phone: (65) 6592 1716
E-mail: LSellou@ntu.edu.sg
Office: SPMS-CBC-03-10
* Physical Chemistry-Colloids

SIOW, Kok Siong
Senior Teaching Fellow
B.Sc. (Nanyang Univ.), M.Sc. (Simon Fraser), Ph.D. (McGill)

Phone: (65) 6316 8794
E-mail: kssiow@ntu.edu.sg
Office: SPMS-CBC-03-05
* Physical chemistry of polymers – thermodynamics of polymer solutions, polymer blends, and properties and applications of polymers.
* Applied electrochemistry.

SO, Cheuk Wai
Assistant Professor
B.Sc. & Ph.D. (Chinese U. of Hong Kong)
Post-doc: Göttingen, Nagoya

Phone: (65) 6513 2730
E-mail: CWSo@ntu.edu.sg
Office: SPMS-CBC-06-17
*Synthetic, structural and mechanistic studies of heavier main group organometallic compounds
*Development of new π-conjugated materials with main group elements

SOO, Han Sen
SPMS Scholar
B.Sc. (MIT), M.Sc. (MIT), Ph.D. program (UC Berkeley)

Phone: (65) 6790 3760
E-mail: SPMS-V1@ntu.edu.sg
Office: NIE5-3-41
 * Development of novel elonate ligands to support early transition metal complexes.

TAN, Howe-Siang
Assistant Professor
B.Sc. (NUS), M.A. (Princeton),
Ph.D. (Princeton)
Post-doc: Stanford

Phone: (65) 6316 2987
E-mail: howesiang@ntu.edu.sg
Office: SPMS-CBC-03-06  
* Ultrafast nonlinear spectroscopy of water molecules, two-dimensional optical spectroscopy, optical pulse shaping

TRAN HUY, Ngoc Hoa
Visiting Associate Professor
MS, Ph.D. (University of Paris Sud XI)
Post-docs: T.U.M. (Germany), Bristol (U.K.)

Phone: (65) 6592 1757
Email: NHTRANHUY@ntu.edu.sg
Office: SPMS-CBC-06-06
*Organophosphorus materials for optoelectronic applications.
*Chemistry of Phosphinidene complexes: carbene like chemistry of monovalent phosphorus.

WEBSTER, Richard D.
Assistant Professor
B.Sc. (Auckland), B.Sc. (Hons. 1, La Trobe), Ph.D. (La Trobe)
Post-docs: Oxford, ANU

Phone: (65) 6316 8793
E-mail: webster@ntu.edu.sg
Office: SPMS-CBC-04-06
* Analytical Chemistry
* Molecular electrochemistry
* Redox chemistry of vitamins and enzymes
* Spectroscopy of radical ions
* Surface modified electrodes

 
XING, Bengang
Assistant Professor
B.Sc (XJNU), Ph.D. (NJU)
Post-doc: Stanford University, University of California, HKUST

Phone: (65) 6316 8758
E-mail: bengang@ntu.edu.sg
Office: SPMS-CBC-04-20
* My research interests will be highly interdisciplinary in the interface of organic synthesis, bioconjugate chemistry, biomaterials as well as medicinal chemistry, nano-science and biological chemistry.

YAMANE, Motoki
Assistant Professor
B.Sc., M.Sc. & Ph.D. (Tokyo)

Phone: (65) 6513 8014
E-mail: yamane@ntu.edu.sg
Office: SPMS-CBC-05-06

*Organic Synthesis
*Organometallic Chemistry Directed towards Organic Synthesis

YEOW, Edwin Kok Lee
Assistant Professor
B.Sc. (NUS),
Ph.D. (Melbourne)
Post-doc: Belgium

Phone: (65) 6316 8759
E-mail: edwinyeow@ntu.edu.sg
Office: SPMS-CBC-03-04
* Photoinduced electron transfer and electronic energy transfer in novel molecular devices, and single molecule spectroscopy on biologically important systems.
YOSHIKAI, Naohiko
Nanyang Assistant Professor
B.S., M.S., Ph.D. (The University of Tokyo)

Phone: (65) 6592 7768
Email: NYOSHIKAI@ntu.edu.sg
Office: SPMS-CBC-05-18
* Synthetic Methodology
* Homogeneous Catalysis
* Physical Organic Chemistry

ZHANG, Dawei
Assistant Professor
B.S. (Nankai), M.S. (Nankai),
Ph.D. (NYU)

Phone: (65) 6513 7367
Email: ZHANGDW@ntu.edu.sg
Office: SPMS-CBC-03-03
*Development of force field
*Structure-function of TCM

ZHONG, Guofu
Associate Professor
B.Sc. (Nanjing), M.Sc. (Shanghai), Ph.D. (Scripps)
Post-doc: TSRI

Phone: (65) 63168761
E-mail: guofu@ntu.edu.sg
Office: SPMS-CBC-04-18
* Asymmetric Synthesis
* Organocatalysis
* Organic Synthesis
* Medicinal and Bioorganic Chemistry 

ZHOU, Steve
Nanyang Assistant Professor
B.Sc., M.Sc. (NUS), Ph.D. (MIT)
post-doc (Yale and UIUC)

Phone: (65) 6513 2726
Email: jrzhou@ntu.edu.sg
Office: SPMS-CBC-06-03
* New organic reactions
* Asymmetric catalysis
* Mechanistic studies
* Enzymatic mimetics
* Solar cell