Principal Investigator

Experience

2021.09 ~

Professor in Department of Chemistry

Adjunct Professor at Graduate School of Nanoscience and Technology & KAIST Institute for the NanoCentury

 

2020/09 ~ 2021.08 

Associate Professor in Department of Chemistry

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2011.04 ~ 2020.08

Associate/Assistant Professor in Graduate School of Nanoscience and Technology

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2009.03 ~ 2011.03

Research Associate in Dept. of Physics and LCMRC (Liquid crystal materials research center), Univ. of Colorado, Boulder

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2007.03 ~ 2009.03

Senior Engineer in Advanced Process Development Team, Memory Division, Semiconductor Business, Samsung Electronics CO., LTD.

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Honors

► The Excellence in Teaching Award, KAIST (2022. 06. 16)

► Mid-career Award at the Polymer Society of Korean (2022. 04. 07)

► Transdisciplinary Research Prize at the 50th anniversary of founding KAIST (2021. 05)

► Award for Advanced Research at 126th General meeting of Korean Chemical Society (2020. 10)

► Prime Minister’s Award at 53th Science Day (2020. 04)

► Merck Young Scientist Award at the 17th International Meeting on Inf. Dis. (2017), Korea (2017.08)

► MOE (Ministry of Education) Excellent basic research 50, Korea (2014.11)

► ILCS(The International Liquid Crystal Society) Early-Career Award:

The Michi Nakata Prize in the 24th International Liquid Crystal Conference (ILCC 2012), US (2012.08)

► Junior Scientist Exchange Award in ICAM(Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter), US (2009.03)

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Society activity

► Associated Editor of Journal of Information Display (2020-present)

► Associated Editor of Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society (2022-present)

► Member of Korean Polymer Society, Vice-Chair of the International Advisory Board (2022-present)/ Organizing Committee Member of Colloid & Molecular Assembly (CAMA) (2023-present)/ Academic Committee Member (2020~2021) / Vice-Chief Editor of Polymer Science and Technology (2017-2018)

► Member of Korean Chemical Society (2017-present), Secretary in Polymer Chemistry Division (2021)

► Program Committee of SPIE Photonics West, Emerging Liquid Crystal Technologies (ELCT) (2023-present)

► Organizing Committee Member of 18th and 17th International Conference on Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals; FLC2021 (Ljubljana, Slovenia) and FLC2019 (Boulder, USA)

► Member of Korean Information Display Society (2011-present), Secretary in LC technology division (2013-2021), Board Member of Korean Information Display Society (2022-present)

► Member of Korean Synchrotron Radiation User's Association, Secretary in SAXS division (2020-2021)

► Member of ACS (2018~), Secretary of ACS South Korea Chapter(2022)

► Organizing Committee Member of Polycondensation 2022