Yeom Han-woong (born 5 December 1966) is a South Korean physicist. A tenured professor at

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, he has led several research centers for the university and from 2013 in collaboration with the

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. He is a Fellow of the

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and has served as vice chairman of the Korean government's first science and technology advisory group for three consecutive terms. With more than 300 publications to his name, his research has been cited over 5,000 times giving him an

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of 40 and

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of 125.

Career

He was born in Seoul, and studied physics as an undergraduate at

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before going on to

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in Japan as a doctoral student. Thereafter he was a research associate at the Department of Chemistry,

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(1996–2000). He then returned to his native South Korea, where he was an assistant/associate professor at the Department of Physics,

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(2000–2009), and then a full professor (2009–2010). During his time at Yonsei, he was part of a research team that developed a semiconductor nanometer wire with a thickness of 1 to 3 atoms. Afterwards he moved to the Department of Physics,

(2010–present), where he served as director of Center for Atomic Wires and Layers (2003–2012), director of Center for Low Dimensional Electronic Symmetries (2012–2013), and founding director of Center for Artificial Low Dimensional Electronic Systems,

(2013–present).

Awards

*1999: Young Researcher of the Year, Japanese Society for Synchrotron Radiation Research *2006: Outstanding Faculty of the Year, Yonsei University *2006: Scientist and Engineer of the Month,

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*2007: Academic Achievement Award, Korean Physical Society *2007: Honored Invitation as Young Scientist of Asia, Japanese Society of Applied Physics *2010: Outstanding Referee (Lifetime honor),

*2012: Leading Korean Research Scientist,

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*2015:

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, President of Korea *2016: Inchon Award for Science and Technology, Inchon Foundation and Dong-A Daily Newspaper *2017:

Kyung-Ahm Prize The Kyung-Ahm Prize is a series of awards presented annually from the Kyung-Ahm Education & Cultural Foundation. Founded in 2005 with a 100 billion KRW endowment by Geum-Jo Song, the award originally had four categories and in addition to the aw ...

in Natural Science, Kyung-Ahm Prize Foundation

Selected publications

#Self-Assembled Nanowires with Giant Rashba Split Bands. ''Phys. Rev. Lett.'' 110, 036801 (2013). #Topological Solitons versus Nonsolitonic Phase Defects in a Quasi-One-Dimensional Charge-Density Wave. ''Phys. Rev. Lett.'' 109, 246802 (2012). #Radial band structure of electrons in liquid metals. ''Phys. Rev. Lett.'' 107, 136402 (2011). #Nearly Massless Electrons in the Silicon Interface with a Metal Film. ''Phys. Rev. Lett.'' 104, 246803 (2010). #Giant kink in the electron dispersion of strongly coupled lead nanowires. ''Nano Lett.'' 9, 1916 (2009). #

References

External links

IBS Center for Artificial Low Dimensional Electronic Systems

Han Woong Yeom - Google Scholar
{{DEFAULTSORT:Yeom, Han-woong 1966 births Living people Seoul National University alumni Tohoku University alumni Academic staff of Yonsei University South Korean physicists Paju Yeom clan Institute for Basic Science Academic staff of Pohang University of Science and Technology Pohang University of Science and Technology alumni