Hyuk KANG

Education & Experience

• Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor: 2007 - present, Department of Chemistry, Ajou University

• Postdoc: 2005 - 2007, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

• Postdoc: 2003 - 2004, Laboratoire de Photophysique Moléculaire du CNRS (Laboratory of Molecular Photophysics of the CNRS)

• Ph.D.: 1997-2002, Physical Chemistry, Seoul National University

• M.S.: 1995-1996, Physical Chemistry, Seoul National University

• B.S.: 1991-1994, Chemistry, Seoul National University

Research Interests

• Photophysics of biomolecular building blocks

• Conformer-specific UV & IR spectroscopy of biological building blocks and bioactive molecules

• Conformational isomerization of biomolecules

• Analytical application of cryogenic ion spectroscopy

Representative Publications (full publication list)

• J. H. Kwon, M. J. Lee, G. Song, K. Tsuruta, S.-I. Ishiuchi, M. Fujii, and H. Kang,
  "Cryogenic Ion Spectroscopy of a Singly Protonated Peptide DYYVVR: Locating Phosphorylation Sites of a Kinase Domain",
  J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 11, 7103 (2020).

• H. Kang, G. Féraud, C. Dedonder-Lardeux, and C. Jouvet,
  "New Method for Double-Resonance Spectroscopy in a Cold Quadrupole Ion Trap and Its Application to UV-UV Hole-Burning Spectroscopy of Protonated Adenine Dimer",
  J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 5, 2760 (2014).

• W. Y. Sohn, M. Kim, S.S. Kim, Y. D. Park, and H. Kang,
  "Solvent-assisted conformational isomerization and conformationally-pure REMPI spectrum of 3-Aminophenol"
  Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 13, 7037 (2011).

• H. Kang, L. Paša-Tolić, and R. D. Smith,
  "Targeted Tandem Mass Spectrometry for High-Throughput Comparative Proteomics Employing NanoLC-FTICR MS with External Ion Dissociation"
  J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. 18, 1332 (2007).

• H. Kang, C. Dedonder-Lardeux, C. Jouvet, S. Martrenchard, G. Grégoire, C. Desfrançois, J-P. Scherman, M. Barat, and J. A. Fayeton,
  "Ultrafast deactivation mechanisms of protonated aromatic amino acids following UV excitation"
  Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 7, 394 (2005).

• H. Kang, K. T. Lee, B. Jung, Y. J. Ko, and S. K. Kim,
  "Intrinsic lifetimes of the excited state of DNA and RNA bases"
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124, 12958 (2002).