Biography
Michelle Chang is an outstanding scientist in the field of organic chemistry and a named professor at Princeton University (A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Chemistry). She has made seminal contributions across broad areas of biosynthesis and biocatalysts, where she has developed synthetic methods to advance the preparation of halogenated natural products of medical importance and biomass conversion for energy and environmental science. Her findings are being applied broadly from the development of biofuels to pharmaceuticals. Dr. Chang studied chemistry/biochemistry and French literature as an undergraduate at the University of California, San Diego and completed her PhD in chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.