H.G. Underwood Professor

Jinwoo Cheon

Education

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

Professional Career

2015 - present Director of Center for NanoMedicine, Institute for Basic Science
2013 - present Editorial Advisory Board Member of Materials Horizons Chemistry (RSC)
2010 - present Editorial Advisory Board Member of Nano Letters (ACS)
2010 - 2016 Director of National Creative Research Initiative Center for Evolutionary Nanoparticles
2009 - present Senior Editor of Accounts of Chemical Research (ACS)
2008 - 2011 Editorial Board Member of Journal of Materials Chemistry (RSC)
2008 - present Horace G. Underwood Professor, Yonsei University
2002 - present Professor, Yonsei University
1998 - 2002 Assistant and Associate Professor, KAIST
1995 - 1998 Staff Research Associate, UCLA
1993 - 1995 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California Berkeley

Awards and Honers

2018 Madhuri and Jagdish N. Sheth International Alumni Award for Exceptional Achievement
2015 Ho-Am Prize (The Ho-Am Foundation)
2014 - present Fellow (American Chemical Society)
2013 KCS Academic Achievement Award (Korean Chemical Society)
2012 POSCO ChungAm Prize (POSCO Fundation)
2012 Korea's 100 Most Influential Person for Next 10 Years (DongA Daily News)
2010 Inchon Prize (Inchon Memorial Foundation)
2008 - present Fellow (Royal Society of Chemistry)
2007 Song-Gok Science Prize (KIST)
2004 KCS Award in Inorganic Chemistry (Korean Chemical Society)
2003 - present Fellow (Korean Academy of Science and Technology)
2002 Presidential Young Scientist Award (Awarded by the President of Korea)
2001 Wiley Young Chemist Award (Korean Chemical Society-Wiley & Sons)