Ho Nam Chang
KAIST, Korea
Biography
Ho Nam Chang has completed his PhD from Stanford University in Chemical Engineering (1971). After one year’s postdoctoral studies from Iowa State Univ., he returned to KAIST, Korea in 1976, where he served for 39 years until his retirement in February 2015 (as Professor Emeritus). He has been continuing his work on microbial biodiesel and osmotic pressure using reverse osmosis in Pukyung National and Chungbuk National Universities for successful commercialization of microbial biodiesel from low cost biomass such as food waste. He has published more than 365 papers in reputed journals, 10,290 citat ions (h-index 56, Google scholar) and has been serving as Advisory Board Member of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, the best journal in Biotechnology (Engineering) area by Wiley- Blackwell.