Bio

Yongseok Hong was born and raised in South Korea. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. in Chemistry from Yonsei University. During his Ph.D., he developed ultrafast spectroscopic tools and investigated ultrafast phenomena in organic systems, for which he received the Best Doctoral Thesis Award from the Korean Chemical Society (KCS). During his postdoctoral research, his work focused on ultrafast imaging of polariton transport and spin-correlated dynamics, including chirality-induced spin selectivity.

Now at POSTECH, Yongseok's research aims to achieve efficient energy and information flow at the nanoscale. His lab develops state-of-the-art ultrafast microscopic techniques spanning a broad range of spectral and temporal domains.

He has been appointed as Assistant Professor at POSTECH, starting in 2027.

Awards and Honors

2024 Next Generation Science and Technology Leader NET - Group leader (KOFST)  

2023 Sejong Science Fellowship Grants “Overseas Training Track” (2 years)

2022 The Best Ph.D. Thesis Award (Korean Chemical Society) 

2021 JON HOUGEN Prize for Promising Young Spectroscopists (Asian Workshop on Molecular Spectroscopy)

2020 Academic Paper Award (Yonsei University) 

2020 Silver Prize at 26th Samsung Humantech Paper Award (Samsung) 

2017 Academic Paper Award (Dow Chemical and KCS)