Dr. Hongkun Park

Biography

Hongkun Park received a B.S. degree in Chemistry from the College of Natural Sciences at Seoul National University, Korea, graduating summa cum laude as Valedictorian in 1990. Following mandatory military service in the Republic of Korea Army, he proceeded to Stanford University where he obtained a Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1996 under the direction of Richard N. Zare, focusing on photoionization dynamics of nitric oxide probed by angle-energy-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy. He joined the faculty of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University in 1999 after a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where his research dealt with electron transport in individual nanocrystals and nanocrystal arrays. Park has received several prestigious awards, including the Camille Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award and the Research Corporation Research Innovation Award in 1999, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship in Science and Engineering in 2001, and the NSF-CAREER Award in 2002. He was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2011 and has held various visiting professorships, including at the University of California at Berkeley.

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