Professor

E-mail: dsohn@hanyang.ac.kr

Homepage: http://micelle.hanyang.ac.kr 

                 or https://sites.google.com/view/hyuppcl

Education:  

Feb. 1984       B. S., Chemistry, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea

Feb. 1986       M. S., Chemistry, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea

Dec. 1994      Ph. D., Chemistry, Louisiana State University, USA

(Advisor: Prof. Paul S. Russo)

Professional Experience:

Jun. 1987 - Jul. 1989   Research Scientist, Cheil Synthetic, Inc. (Samsung), Korea

Dec. 1994 - Nov. 1996 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin, USA

                                     (Advisor: Prof. Hyuk Yu)

Dec. 1996 - Feb. 1997 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto, Canada

                                     (Advisor: Prof. Eugenia Kumacheva)

Mar. 1997 - Feb. 2002 Assistant Professor, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea

Mar. 2002 - Feb. 2007 Associate Professor, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea

Mar. 2007 - present       Professor, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea

Jun. 1997 - Aug. 1997 Visiting Scholar, University of Toronto, Canada

   (Host: Professor Eugenia Kumacheva)

Aug. 2001 - June. 2004  Director of Nanoenics, Inc.

Feb. 2004 - Feb. 2005 Guest Researcher, NIST-Gaithersburg, USA

   (Host: Dr. Michael Fasolka)

Jun. 2008 – Aug. 2008 JSPS Scholar, Kyushu University (Host: Prof. A. Takahara)

Mar. 2006 - Feb. 2008    Chair in the Department of Chemistry, Hanyang University

Aug. 2011 - Dec. 2012   Chair of the Association of General Education in Korea

Sep. 2008 - Jul. 2012 Vice Dean of Academic Affairs, Hanyang University

Aug. 2012 - Jul. 2013     Dean of Academic Affairs, Hanyang University

Jan. 2014 - Mar. 2014 Visiting Professor, Kyushu Univ., Japan (Host: Prof. A. Takahara)

Aug. 2014 - Sep. 2014 Visiting Professor, Georgia Tech., USA (Host: Prof. P. S. Russo)

Sep. 2014 – Oct. 2014   Visiting Professor, RIKEN-Wako, Japan (Host: Dr. Mizuo Maeda)

Nov. 2014 – Dec. 2014   Visiting Professor, USTC-Hefei, China (Host: Prof. Chi Wu)

Jan. 2015 – Feb. 2015 Visiting Professor, CUHK-Hong Kong (Host: Prof. Chi Wu)

Jul. 2016 – Jun. 2020  Dean, College of Natural Science, Hanyang University

Jun. 2022 - Jul. 2022     Visiting Professor, KIST-Europe, Germany

Nov. 2022- Dec. 2022     Visiting Professor, Kyushu University, Japan (Host: Prof. Keiji Tanaka)

Researchl Activities:

Jan. 2008 – present      Editor, Polymer Bulletin, Springer

Jun. 2022 – present    Chair, Core-Facility Center for Polymers & Composite Materials

Mar. 2020 – present    Chair, Research Institute for Convergence of Basic Science

Jan. 2020 – Dec. 2020 Chair, Polymer Chemistry Div. in the Korean Chemical Society

Jan. 2019 – Dec. 2019 Vice president, Polymer Society of Korea

Jan. 2015 – Dec. 2016 Secretary-General, IUPAC-PSK40, the Polymer Society of Korea

Jan. 2015 – Dec. 2015 Conference Chair, KJF-ICOMEP 2015

Jan. 2006 – Dec. 2006 Director of General Affairs in the Korea Chemical Society

Jan. 2003 – Dec. 2003   Director in the Polymer Society of Korea

Jan. 2002 – Dec. 2002 Director of Academic Affair in the Korean Chemical Society

Jan. 2001 – Dec. 2002   Secretary of Polymer Div. in the Korean Chemical Society

Members of Korean Chemical Soc. Polymer Soc. of Korea, ACS, and APS

Award

-  HYU Chemistry Proud Alumni Award, Nov. 17, 2023.

-  Fellow, Polymer Society of Korea, Oct. 21, 2021.        

-  LG Chem Polymer Research Award, Polymer Society of Korea, April 8, 2021.

-  Scientific Best Publication Award, 18th KOFST, Korea, 2008.

-  Invited Lecture of Asia Excellence, The Society of Polymer Science, Japan, May 29, 2007.