Hyeon Taeghwan

Taeghwan Hyeon received his B. S. (1987) and M. S. (1989) from Seoul National University (SNU), and Ph.D. from U. Illinois (1996) in Chemistry, and conducted one-year postdoctoral research at Northwestern University. Since he joined School of Chemical and Biological Engineering of SNU in 1997, he has focused on synthesis and applications of uniform-sized nanoparticles and related nanostructured materials, and published > 350 papers in prominent international journals (> 52,000 citations and h-index > 120). He is a SNU Distinguished Professor, and Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry and Materials Research Society. In 2011, he was selected as “Top 100 Chemists” by UNESCO&IUPAC. Since 2013, he has chosen as “Highly Cited Researcher” in Chemistry and Materials Science areas by Clarivate Analytics. Since 2012, he has served as a Director of Center for Nanoparticle Research of Institute for Basic Science. He received many awards including Korea S&T Award from Korean President (2016), Samsung Hoam Prize (2012), POSCO-T. J. Park Award (2008), and the IUVSTA Prize for Technology (2016). Since 2010, he has served as Associate Editor of J. Amer. Chem. Soc. He has been serving as editorial (advisory) board members of ACS Central Science, Advanced Materials, Nano Today, and Small.