Prof. Chia Ming Chang

Prof. Dr. Chia Ming Chang is currently a professor in the Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences, National Chung Hsing University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Soil Chemical Physics from National Taiwan University in 1997. He was previously the director of the Soil and Groundwater Pollution Remediation Research Centre at National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan (2009-2014). He organized the Predictive Toxicology Conference: Environment, Food and Health in 2016, the International Conference on Computational Chemistry and Toxicology in Environmental Science (CCTES) in 2018, and the Soil Hydrology and Water Resources Management Modeling Summit in 2022. He is the associate editor of the International Journal of Quantitative Structure-Property Relationships (IJQSPR) and Venoms and Toxins and the guest editor of Molecules and Pharmaceuticals. Furthermore, he focuses on computational chemistry and toxicology in environmental science, which aims to study the fate and impacts of chemicals on the environment and human health. He also studies computational chemistry in biological systems to explore protein-ligand and protein-protein interactions. Combining computational chemistry and toxicology with safer green chemistry concepts can help design chemicals with minimal hazards. His current research areas include adsorption, degradation, ecotoxicity (and toxicity), and bioaccumulation (and exposure) in natural and engineered processes.