Group Leader

Experience

2027-     Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, POSTECH (Pohang, Korea)

2026     Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University (NY, US)

 Supervisor: Prof. Milan Delor

2022     Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Department of Chemistry, Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea)

 Supervisor: Prof. Dongho Kim

Education

2021     Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea) 

 Supervisor: Prof. Dongho Kim

2015 B.S. in Chemistry, Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea)

Awards and Honors

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

2023 Sejong Science Fellowship Grants “Overseas Training Track”

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)

Invited Talks

2025 Colloquium Talk (Yonsei University, Department of Chemistry)

2025 Seminar Talk (DIGST, Department of Physics and Chemistry)

2025 Frontiers in Experimental/Theoretical Chemistry for Functional Materials (Exciton workshop 2025)
Title: “Why Matter Matters: Importance of Intersite Coupling in Polariton Transport” 

2025 Seminar talk (KAIST, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering)

2025 Seminar talk (Hanyang University, Department of Chemistry)
2021 Light-Matter Interaction and Electron Transfer: State of the Art and Remaining Challenges (KCS 2021, International symposium)
Title: “Probing the structural dynamics controlling the nature of the exciton by time-domain Raman spectroscopy”