Director

• Name: Suklyun Hong (Google scholar)

• Position: Professor (Dept. Physics & Astronomy) & Director (Graphene Research Institute, GRI-TPC International Research Center & Basic Research Lab)

               President, The Korean Physical Society (KPS)

• E-mail: hong@sejong.ac.kr  

• Phone: +82-2-3408-3209

• Office: Gwanggaeto-gwan Rm. 1113

• Mailing address: Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Sejong University, Neungdong-ro 209, Gwangjn-gu, Seoul 05006, South Korea

• Theoretical/Computational Condensed Matter Physics 

− Electronic and Structural Properties of Solids and Surfaces; Many-body Theory 

− Graphene; Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs); Carbon Nanotube

− Semiconductor Surfaces; Hydrogen Storage Materials

• 1990-1995: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA / Ph.D. (1995, Physics)
                    (Thesis:Temperature Dependence of Exchange and Correlation in an Electron Gas)
                    (Advisors: Prof. Gerald D. Mahan and Prof. Eugene J. Mele)

• 1988-1990: Seoul National University, Korea / M.S. (1990, Physics)
                    (Thesis: Effects of Interlayer Interactions on the Gap Equations of High-Tc Superconductivity)
                    (Advisor : Prof. Jisoon Ihm)

• 1984-1988: Seoul National University, Korea / B.S. (1988, Physics) with Magna Cum Laude

• 2010.3-present: Professor / Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Sejong University, Korea

• 2010.1-present: Director / Graphene Research Institute*, Sejong University, Korea (*First government-funded institute for graphene research in Korea)  

• 2018.7-present: Director / GRI-TPC International Research Center (GRI-TPC IRC), Sejong University, Korea

• 2021.6-present: Director / Basic Research Laboratory (BRL) (“BRL  for  Janus  2D  Semiconductors  and  Their Valleyspintronics Applications”), Sejong University, Korea

• 2022.1-present: Secretary / C20 [Computational Physics] in The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP)

• 2015.1-2021.12: Member / C20 [Computational Physics] in The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP)

• 2023.1-present: President / The Korean Physical Society

• 2019.1-2020.12: Executive Vice President / The Korean Physical Society

• 2019.1-2020.12: Council Member / The Korean Physical Society

• 2019.4-2020.4: Faculty Member / Council of Sejong University

• 2014.7-2015.8: Visiting Professor / Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA 

• 2013.1-2014.12: Treasurer / The Korean Physical Society 

• 2012.8-2014.8: Dean / College of Natural Sciences, Sejong University

• 2010.9-2019.4: Director / Priority Research Centers Program of the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea government ("Graphene Nanostructures and Electronic Devices") 

• 2012.9-2017.9: Director / Nano-Material Technology Development Program of NRF ("Growth and defect control in graphene and development of innovative graphene-based electronic devices")

• 2012.5-2015.4: Editor / Journal of The Korean Physical Society

• 2009.1-2010.12: Vice Executive Director / The Korean Physical Society 

• 2005.9-2009.12: Director / Institute of Fundamental Physics (IFP), Sejong University

• 2004.3-2010.2: Associate Professor / Dept. of Physics, Sejong University 

• 2006.7-2007.7: Distinguished Visiting Scientist / Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

• 2005.3-2006.7: Chair / Dept. of Physics, Sejong University

• 2001.6-2001.8: Visiting Scholar / Oak Ridge National Laboratory

• 1999-2004: Assistant Professor / Dept. of Physics, Sejong University

• 1997-1999: Research Associate / Oak Ridge National Laboratory

• 1995-1997: Research Fellow / Georgia Institute of Technology

• 1993-1995: Research Assistant / University of Tennessee

• 1992-1993: Research Assistant / University of Pennsylvania

• 1990-1991: Teaching Assistant / University of Pennsylvania

• 1988-1990: Teaching and Research Assistant / Seoul National University

• 1984-1986 &1988-1989: Seoul National University Scholarship 

• 1986: Seoul National University Honor Fellowship for Excellence

• 1989-1990: Seoul National University Alumni Fellowship

• 1988: Graduated with Magna Cum Laude from Seoul National University

• 1990-1993: Korean Government Fellowship for Foreign Study

• 2001: Appointee to U.S. DOE Higher Education Research Experience Program for Faculty

• 2006-2007: Appointee to U.S. DOE Higher Education Research Experience Program for Faculty

• 2011: Sejong University Distinguished Teaching Award

• 2014: Plenary Speaker at Materials Challenges In Alternative & Renewable Energy (MCARE2014) (an International Conference Organized by the American Ceramic Society)

• 2014: Sejong University Distinguished Research Award

• 2014: Sejong Aejiheon Award for Excellence in Research 

• 2017: Sejong Daeyang Award for Excellence in Research

• 2020: Plenary  Speaker  at  International Conference on Computer Simulation in Physics and beyond (CSP2020)

• 2021: KPS Award for CAP Excellent Paper