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Biography
Jean ("John") Yong was born in 1968 in Singapore. He received his doctoral degree in plant biochemistry and physiology at the Australian National University, and has worked at various universities in Singapore and Australia, Brown University and MIT.
With a multidisciplinary mindset, he has operated successfully across the triple realms of academia, government and commercial sectors.
After twenty years of research, teaching and industrial consultancies, two major themes emerged over time: developing sustainable plant production for horticultural, agricultural and ecological applications and defining the biological functionalities and ecological services provided by plants in various scenarios, especially the built environment.