Soft matter physics, Biomaterials and self-assembling
system, surface/interface phenomena

1976~1978 Research Associate at University of Pittsburgh
1978~1996 Senior Staff Physicist, Exxon Research and
Engineering Co.
1994~ Adjunct Professor in the Department of
Materials Science
and Engineering at the SUNY at
Stony Brook New York
1994~ Fellow, American Physical Society
1995~2000 Professor in Department of Advanced Materials
Engineering, KAIST
1996~ Professor in Department of Physics, KAIST
1996~ Adjunct Professor in the Department of
Materials,
University of California, Santa Barbara
2002~ Advisory Committee of Nano Technology
Division,
Minister of Health & Welfare
2002~ Director, Biomolecular Self-Assembling
Nanomaterials Center, KAIST
2003~ President, Neutron beam User Group Association
2004~ President, Korea Institute for Advanced
Study

1994 Fellow, American Physical Society
1996 The Best Patent of at EXXON
2004 Research Award, KAIST