Sukbok Chang is a professor at the Department of Chemistry at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and also a director at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS). He earned BS (Korea University, 1985), and MS from KAIST (1987, Prof. Sunggak Kim). After working in a pharmaceutical company to substitute the obligatory military service, he went to U.S. and received PhD from Harvard University (1996, Professor Eric Jacobsen). After a postdoctoral research at Caltech (Prof. Grubbs), he returned to Korea in 1998 as an assistant professor at Ewha Womans University. In 2002, he moved to KAIST where he currently resides. Since 2012, he has been affiliated with Institute for Basic Science as a director in addition to KAIST. He received the Korean Science prize in 2012 and Ho-Am Prize in 2022. His main research focus is in the transition metal catalysis and its synthetic applications.