Choong Eui Song (Korean: 송충의; born January 15, 1955) is a South Korean organic chemist.
Biography
Song was born and raised in Seoul. He received his B.S. degree from Chung-Ang University in 1980, and received a diploma (1985) and a Ph.D. (1988) at RWTH Aachen University in Germany.
After completing his Ph.D., he worked as Principal Research Scientist at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST). In 2001, he was appointed as a head of the National Research Laboratory for Green Chirotechnology in Korea. In 2004, he moved to Sungkyunkwan University (Department of Chemistry) as a full professor. In 2005, he was elected as the vice-president of Korean Chemical Society. From 2006 to 2014 he worked as a director at the Research Institute of Advanced Nanomaterials (University-centered Lab, Korea Research Foundation). In 2016 he was appointed as a director of National Research Laboratory for Chiral Organic Molecular Materials in Korea.
He has been visiting professors for several universities/institutes in the worlds, including:
- Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kohlenforschung, Mülheim, Germany, 2010
- University of Southampton, England, 2015
He served as a technical advisor to the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Dongwoo Fine-Chem and Hansol Chemical. He has been a board member of Kyongbo Pharmaceuticals s since 2015.
His research has been focused on asymmetric organocatalysis, biomimetic catalysis, artificial enzyme, on-water catalysis and on-droplet catalysis. His current research also focuses on prebiotic chemistry, specifically, the origin of homochirality (chirality amplification process).[2][3]
Honors and awards
He has received several scientific awards including:
- The Korean 52 Research Scientists (Ministry of Science and Technology (South Korea), 1998)
- The Scientist of the Month Award[4] (Korea Institute of Science and Technology, 2000)
- The Scientist of the Month Award of Korea[5] (Ministry of Science and Technology (South Korea), 2001)
- The distinguished contribution award for new drug development (Korea Drug Research Association, 2004)
- Academic Excellence Grand Prize[6] (Korean Chemical Society, 2013)
- Academic Excellence Grand Prize Korean Society of Organic Synthesis, 2017)
In 2018, he was elected to the Korean Academy of Science and Technology.[7]
References
- ^ "이달의 과학기술자상에 송충의 박사 선정" [Dr. Song Choong-eui chosen for Scientist of the Month Award]. JoongAng Ilbo. 2002-01-21. Retrieved 2018-10-16.
- ^ "Choong Eui Song's Lab homepage".
- ^ "Choong Eui Song at ResearchGate".
- ^ KIST. "The Scientist of the Month Award of KIST". www.kist.re.kr (in Korean).
- ^ Seoul Economic Daily. "The Scientist of the Month Award of Korea" (in Korean).
- ^ Korean Chemical Society (9 May 2013). "Academic Excellence Grand Prize".
- ^ "Korean Academy of Science and Technology".
