Woo-Young Kang

Woo-Young Kang

Classification

  • Staff

Discipline

  • Analytical


Title

  • Research Scientist I

Contact

wkang@chemistry.msstate.edu

Dr. Woo-Young Kang is the Mass Spectrometry Manager in the Department of Chemistry at Mississippi State University. He earned his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Florida and holds M.S. and B.S. degrees in Chemistry and Applied Chemistry from Sejong University. His experience includes managing shared instrumentation facilities, supporting users across multiple research areas, troubleshooting and maintaining advanced mass spectrometry instrumentation, and developing analytical methods for omics-based studies. His research background includes gas-phase protein ion chemistry, stable isotope-resolved metabolomics and lipidomics, and mass spectrometry method development, which informs his work providing technical consultation, training, and operational support for the MSU Mass Spectrometry Facility.