Dr. Chun-Yen Chang is a science education scholar in Taiwan. Currently, he serves as National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) Chair Professor, Principal Investigator of the Institute for Research Excellence in Learning Sciences, and Professor of the Graduate Institute of Science Education and the Department of Earth Sciences (NTNU). From July 2022, he also serves as the Adjunct Professor of the Department of Biology, State University of Malang, Indonesia. Over the past few years, he has been a Visiting Professor at the Taipei Medical University, The Education University of Hong Kong, and the Paris 8 University. Dr. Chang’s major research interests include science education, e-Learning, interdisciplinary science learning, and science communication.

From 2007-2009, he served as the Discipline Coordinator from the Department of International Cooperation and Science Education at the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) in Taiwan and is also a longstanding reviewer of research projects. Dr. Chang has had the honor of directing almost 90 NSTC-funded projects since 1997. From 2011-2016, he led another major project, sponsored by the Taiwan Ministry of Education, to establish a “Center for Research Excellence in Science Education (CRESE)” under the “Aim for the Top University Project.” As a representative of NTNU’s Science Education Center, Dr. Chang joined the European Union’s Open Science Resources project, one of the two subprojects for non-EU areas, and reviewed research projects by Israel Science Foundation and South Korea’s National Research Foundation. In 2015 and 2016, Dr. Chang joined Complex Systems Digital Campus (CS-DC) network. Now He also serves as the Expert Panel Member of the EDUCAUSE Horizon Report, Adviser of the Foundation for Information Technology Education and Development (FIT-ED), Digital Learning for Development (DL4D) Project, and Advisory Board Member of Bett Asia.

Dr. Chang is currently the Editor-in-Chief of four journals: (1) Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education; (2) European Journal of Mathematics and Science Education; (3) Educational Innovations and Emerging Technologies, (4) Applied System Innovation (Section Editor-in-Chief), as well as on the Editorial Board of three SSCI-level journals: (1) Studies in Science Education (science education); (2) Learning, Media & Technology (learning technology); (3) Journal of Science Education and Technology (science education & technology).

Dr. Chang has authored and co-authored more than 150 articles, from which more than 130 are indexed in the Science/Social Science Citation Index (SCI/SSCI) database. Countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Sweden, Slovenia, Italy, Bulgaria, Montenegro, China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Inner Mongolia, Turkey, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Oman, and India, continue to invite Dr. Chang as a keynote/feature speaker. His series of research on science learning environments, published in Science Education in 2005 and 2006, was also reported in the “Taiwanese New Discovery” section of the Science Development Journal in 2007. In NSTC’s 50th anniversary celebrations, Dr. Chang’s research work on problem-solving ability and automatic scoring of science open-ended questions was honored as one of the NSTC’s 50 Great Achievements in 2008.

In 2003, 2009, and 2012, Chang was granted three times one of the highest honors given by NSTC: the “Outstanding Research Award.” In 2013, the Ministry of Education presented Dr. Chang with the Academic Award for Science Education. Also in 2013, the film entitled “The Journey of Science Achievements,” featuring the research outputs produced by an interdisciplinary research team comprised of Dr. Chang and other professors from NTNU was granted the 2013 Award for Excellent Contributions in Technology Transfer. Dr. Chang’s biography has been honorably included in the 2007-2010 Marquis, Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in Science and Engineering 2008-2009, Who’s Who in America 2009, Special 30th Pearl Anniversary Edition of Who’s Who in the World 2013, Who’s Who in the World 2016, as well as Who’s Who in Science and Engineering 2016-2017.

In February 2013, Dr. Chang’s catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) study was privileged in a New York Times Sunday Magazine report and in the news featured on the Association of Psychological Science website. In 2019, the CouldClassRoom (CCR) mobile system he and his research team developed was selected as an exemplary institution in the 2019 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report.