Group Leader

Jooyoung Sung, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor (2021.07 - Current), Department of Physics and Chemistry, DGIST

Tel: +82-53-785-6533 (Office)

ORCID: 0000-0003-2573-6412

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=deU8IYIAAAAJ&hl=en

Experience

2017.08 - 2021.06 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK (PI: Dr. Akshay Rao)

2016.09 - 2017.08 Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, UK (PI: Prof. Philipp Kukura)

2016.03 - 2016.08 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Chemistry, Yonsei University, South Korea (PI: Prof. Dongho Kim)

Education

2012.09 - 2016.02 Ph.D. in Chemistry, Yonsei University, South Korea (PI: Prof. Dongho Kim, Thesis Title: Ultrafast Photophysical Phenomena in Various Molecular Photonic Systems Revealed by Time-resolved Spectroscopy. )

2009.09 - 2011.08 M.S. in Chemistry, Yonsei University, South Korea (PI: Prof. Dongho Kim, Thesis Title: Investigation on Ultrafast Photophysical Phenomena in Pyrenyl Derivatives)

2004. 03 - 2009.08 B.S. in Chemistry, Yonsei University, South Korea

Honors and Awards

2024-2025 Posco Science Fellowship (Posco TJ Park Foundation)

2016-2017 Postdoctoral Fellowship (National Research Foundation of Korea)

2016 Excellence Award for Young Scientist (Korea Federation of Women’s Science & Technology Associations )

2016 Dissertation of the Year (S-OIL Science Prodigy and Culture Foundation)

2016 Certificate of Distinction (Yonsei University)

2013 Best Dissertation Award (Yonsei University)