Faculty
Staff Information Research Focus  
Professor LEUNG Pak Hing
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
Professor LEE Soo Ying
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
Professor LOH Teck Peng
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

Nanyang Professor Sunggak KIM
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

 
Nanyang Professor François MATHEY
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

Nanyang Professor Koichi NARASAKA
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

Associate Professor LI Tianhu
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

Associate Professor LEONG Weng Kee
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

Associate Professor PARK Cheol-Min
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

Associate Professor ZHONG Guofu
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 

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

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.

Assistant Professor Philip Wai Hong CHAN
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.

 
Assistant Professor CHEN Hongyu
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

Assistant Professor Shunsuke CHIBA
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

Assistant Professor DENG Weiqiao
B.S. (LanZhou University), M.S. (Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics), Ph.D. (California Institute of Technology)

Phone: (65) 6316 8796
E-mail: wqdeng@ntu.edu.sg
Office: SPMS-CBC-04-06  
* Hydrogen storage material chemistry
* Fuel cell catalyst synthesis
*Simulations of hydrogen economy and molecular electronics.

Nanyang Assistant Professor
HONG Soon Hyeok

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
Assistant Professor KUO Jer-Lai
(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: SBS B3n-07
* 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

Assistant Professor LIU Xuewei
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

 
Assistant Professor ORNER, Brendan P.
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
 
Assistant Professor PHAN Anh Tuan
(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: SBS B3n-16
* Biophysics: Use of physical, chemical and computational methods to investigate and manipulate properties of biomolecules, such as DNA, RNA, and proteins.

Assistant Professor SO Cheuk Wai
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

Assistant Professor TAN Howe-Siang
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

Assistant Professor WEBSTER, Richard D.
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

 
Assistant Professor XING Bengang
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.

Assistant Professor Motoki YAMANE
Motoki YAMANE
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

Assistant Professor YEOW Kok Lee, Edwin
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.

Assistant Professor ZHANG Dawei
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

Nanyang Assistant Professor ZHOU Steve
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

 
Senior Fellow SIOW Kok Siong
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.


Senior Fellow GOH Lai Yoong
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.

Lecturer CHUA Guan Leong
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.

Lecturer PULLARKAT Sumod A.
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.


SPMS Scholar SOO Han Sen
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.