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Jisoon Ihm

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Jisoon Ihm
Born1951 (age 72–73)
NationalitySouth Korean
Alma materB.S. Seoul National University, Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley, United States
Known forComputational materials physics
AwardsKorea Science Award by President of Korea (1996)
Scientist of the Year Award (1998)
Cheong-Am Award by Cheong-Am Foundation (2007)
Korea Scientist of Highest Honor (2007)
Scientific career
FieldsSolid-State Physics Theory
InstitutionsSeoul National University
Doctoral advisorMarvin L. Cohen
Jisoon Ihm
Hangul
Revised RomanizationIm Ji-sun
McCune–ReischauerIm Chisun

Jisoon Ihm is a South Korean physicist and Professor in the School of Physics at Seoul National University in Seoul, South Korea.[1]

Education

Works

  • 1980–1982: postdoc at MIT
  • 1982–1984: postdoc at AT&T Bell Labs
  • 1984–1986: member of Technical Staff at Bell Communications Research
  • 1986–2016: professor at Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University
  • 2016–present: Distinguished Professor at Department of Physics, POSTECH

Awards and recognition

His first paper published in 1979 spawned a new area in condensed matter physics, namely, “computational materials physics,” and the paper is nowadays regarded[by whom?] as classic in the field. He also published an invited review article on this subject as a single author in Reports on Progress in Physics in 1988. He has carried out research in the development of a novel computational formulation for calculating the total energy of solids based on quantum mechanics. An international society on this field of research was formed around 1990, and its 16th annual meeting was held in Trieste, Italy, in January 2013. He has been a member of the Scientific Committee for this series of meetings. A similar society was formed in Asia in 1998 and he has played a key role in its birth and continued growth.

In 1996, he was presented with the Korea Science Award, which included a commendation by the president of Korea, and two years later won the Scientist of the Year Award.[2]

He was Director of the Center for Theoretical Physics at SNU during the period 2006–2010. He has been a Fellow of the American Physical Society since 2007, and a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA since 2011. He has been a Distinguished Professor at Seoul National University since 2009. He is now engaged in improving the formalism of computational materials physics and its applications to many different material systems such as carbon nanotubes, graphene, topological insulators, and energy storage materials.[3]

References

  1. ^ http://physics.snu.ac.kr/~cmt/ihm.html
  2. ^ "과학언론상: 과학자상". Korea Science Journalists Association (in Korean). Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  3. ^ "Electronic structure and mechanical stability of the graphitic honeycomb lattice", Park N, Ihm J, PHYSICAL REVIEW B, Volume: 62, Issue: 11, Pages: 7614-7618, Published: SEP 15 2000