Academic career

• Director, Center for Artificial Low Dimensional Electronic Systems, Institute for Basic Science (2013 ~ now)  

• Director, Center for Low Dimensional Electronic Symmetry, POSTECH (2012 ~ 2013)

• Director, Center for Atomic Wires and Layers, Yonsei University and POSTECH (2003 ~ 2012)

• Professor, Department of Physics, POSTECH (2010 ~ now)

• Assistant, associate, and full Professor, Institute of Physics and Applied Physics, Yonsei University (2000 ~ 2010)

• Lecturer, Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo (1999 ~ 2000)

• Guest Researcher, Department of Physics and Measurement Technology, Linköping University, Sweden (1997)

• Research Associate, Research Center for Spectrochemistry, Faculty of Science, the   University of Tokyo and beam line manager (BL-7A and BL-7B) of Photon Factory, KEK (1996 ~1999)

Education

• Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University, Japan (1994~1996) ; Doctor of  Science in physics. 

• Department of Physics, Pohang Institute of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea (1989~ 1991); M.S. in experimental solid state physics. 

• Department of Physics, Seoul National University, Korea (1985 ~ 1989); B.S. in physics

Awards and honors

• Fellow, Korean Academy of Science and Technology (2020-)

• Vice Chair, Presidential Advisory Council of Science and Technology of Korea (2018-)

• Fellow, Americal Physical Society (2017-)

• Kyung-Am Award for Natural Science, Kyung-Am Foundation (2017)

• The 30th Inchon Prize for Science and Technology, The Inchon Memorial Foundation and Dong-Ah Daily news paper (2016)

• Korea Science Award, President of Korea (2015)

• NanoKorea 2013 Minister of Science Award for Scientific Achievement, Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (2013)

• Leading Korean Research Scientist, Korean Academy of Science and Technology (2012)

• Outstanding Referee, American Physical Society (2010)

• Honored Invitation as Young Scientist of Asia, Japanese Society for Applied Physics (2007)

• Academic Achievement Award, Korean Physical Society (2007)

• Scientist and Engineer of the Month, Ministry of Science and Technology of Korea (2006)

• Outstanding Faculty of the Year, Yonsei University (2006)

• Young Researcher of the Year, Japanese Society for Synchrotron Radiation Research (1999)

• JSPS Foreign Student Fellowship, Japanese Society for Promotion of Science (1993-1996)