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Hongkun Park received his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from the College of Natural Sciences at Seoul National University in Korea, graduating summa cum laude as Valedictorian in 1990. After fulfilling mandatory military service in the Republic of Korea Army, he moved to Stanford University, where he obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1996 under the direction of Richard N. Zare. His thesis focused on photoionization dynamics of nitric oxide studied through angle- and energy-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy. In 1999, he joined the faculty of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University following a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where his research dealt with electron transport in individual nanocrystals and nanocrystal arrays. Throughout his career, he has received numerous accolades including the Camille Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, and the NIH Director's Pioneer Award. He has also been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2011.
Harvard University • Cambridge, MA
Faculty member in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.
Administered by the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS).