Yousung Jung
Professor of Chemical and Biological EngineeringSeoul National University
- Office: 302-626
- Phone: 02-880-1506
- Email: yousung.jung@snu.ac.kr
Education
- Ph. D. in Chemistry, UC Berkeley, (2005) (advisor: Martin Head-Gordon)
- M.S. in Chemistry, Iowa State University, (2001) (advisor: Mark Gordon)
- M.S. in Chemistry, Seoul National University (1999) (advisor: Doo Soo Chung)
- B.S. in Oceanography, Seoul National University (1997)
Appointment
- 2023.03 - present: Professor, Seoul National University
- 2018.03 - 2023.02: Professor, KAIST
- 2012.09 - 2018.02: Associate Professor (tenured in 2015. 03), KAIST
- 2009.03 - 2012.08: Assistant Professor, KAIST
- 2010.07 - 2011.07: Visiting Associate, Caltech
- 2005.11 - 2009.02: Postdoc, Caltech (advisor: Rudy Marcus, 1992 Nobel Laureate)
Awards and Honors
- 2022: KAIST Impact Research Award (KAIST)
- 2021: Hanseong Science Award (Hanseong Son Jae Han Scholarship Foundation)
- 2020: KAIST Technology Innovation Award (KAIST)
- 2018: Pople Medal, Asia-Pacific Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (APATCC)
- 2017: Young Physical Chemist Awards (Korean Chemical Society)
- 2015: CSJ Distinguished Lectureship Award (Chemical Society of Japan)
- 2014: Samsung Humantech Gold Prize (with Heejin Kim) (Samsung Electronics)
- 2013: KCS-Wiley Young Chemist Award (Korean Chemical Society & Wiley)
- 2011: US-Korea Nanoforum Gold Poster Award (NSF)
- 2007-2009: James W. Glanville Postdoctoral Fellowship (Caltech)
- 2006: Samsung Humantech Bronze Prize (Samsung Electronics)
- 2005: IBM Graduate Student Award in Computational Chemistry (American Chemical Societcy)
Editorial/Advisory/Community Activities
- 2021 - present: Editorial Board, Digital Discovery (RSC)
- 2021 - present: Editorial Board, npj Computational Materials (Nature Publishing Group)
- 2021 - present: Editorial Board, STAM Methods (NIMS, Japan)
- 2019 - present: Editorial Advisory Board, Chemical Science (RSC)
- 2017 - present: Editorial Advisory Board, Advanced Sustainable Systems (Wiley)
- 2021 - present: External Advisory Board, Institute for Digital Molecular Design & Fabrication (Imperial College London)
- 2021 - present: Member, Acceleration Consortium (University of Toronto)
- 2019 - present: Board Member, Asia-Pacific Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (APATCC)