Yonsei Advanced Science Institute

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Faculty

Education

• 1988 - 1993Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
• 1985 - 1987M.S. Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
• 1981 - 1985B.S. Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

Professional Career

• 2025 - PresentDirector of Max Planck-Yonsei IBS Center (MPYIC) for Nanomedicine Deep Tissue Control
• 2025 - PresentAssociate Editor of Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS)
• 2015 - PresentDirector of Center for NanoMedicine, Institute for Basic Science
• 2010 - 2016Director of National Creative Research Initiative Center for Evolutionary Nanoparticles
• 2009 - 2024Senior Editor of Accounts of Chemical Research (ACS)
• 2008 - PresentHorace G. Underwood Professor, Yonsei University
• 2002 - PresentProfessor, Yonsei University
• 1998 - 2002Assistant, Associate Professor, KAIST
• 1995 - 1998Staff Research Associate, UCLA
• 1993 - 1995Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California Berkeley

Awards and Honors

• 2025NAS Prize (National Academy of Sciences of Korea)
• 2024Glenn T. Seaborg Memorial Lectureship (UC Berkeley)
• 2023Humboldt Research Award (The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)
• 2018Sheth International Alumni Award for Exceptional Achievement (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• 2015Ho-Am Prize (The Ho-Am Foundation)
• 2014 - PresentFellow (American Chemical Society)
• 2013KCS Academic Achievement Award (Korean Chemical Society)
• 2012Korea's 100 Most Influential Person for Next 10 Years (DongA Daily News)
• 2012POSCO ChungAm Prize (POSCO Fundation)
• 2010Inchon Prize (Inchon Memorial Foundation)
• 2008 - PresentFellow (Royal Society of Chemistry)
• 2007Song-Gok Science Prize (KIST)
• 2004KCS Award in Inorganic Chemistry (Korean Chemical Society)
• 2003 - PresentFellow (Korean Academy of Science and Technology)
• 2002Presidential Young Scientist Award (Awarded by the President of Korea)
• 2001Wiley Young Chemist Award (Korean Chemical Society-Wiley & Sons)

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