Visiting Scholar
Junsuk Rho, Ph.D.
Mu-Eun-Jae endowed chair Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea
Mon., Jan. 6, 4:00 pm
Milner Executive Boardroom (0560 MEK)
Free and open to the public!
BIO: Junsuk Rho is currently a Mu-Eun-Jae endowed chair Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Chemical Engineering at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea. Before joining POSTECH, he received a degree his B.S. (2007) and M.S. (2008) in Mechanical Engineering at Seoul National University, Korea and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, respectively. After getting Ph.D. (2013) in Mechanical Engineering and Nanoscale Science & Engineering from the University of California Berkeley, he had worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Materials Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Ugo Fano Fellow in Nanoscience and Technology Division at Argonne National Laboratory. His research is focused on developing novel nanophotonic materials and devices based on fundamental physics and experimental studies of deep sub-wavelength light-matter interaction. Dr. Rho has published approximately 100 high impact peer-reviewed journal papers including Nature, Science, Nature Materials, Nature Photonics and Nature Communications. He also has presented keynote and invited talks more than 200 times at the world-leading institutes and international conferences/workshops as well as having 3 US patent and 25 Korea patents. He has received honorable awards including the Optical Society of America (OSA) Milton/Chang Award, the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) Scholarship (2011 & 2012), Materials Research Society (MRS) student award (2012), US DOE Argonne Named Fellowship (2013-2016), Edmund Optics educational award (2015), the Optical Society of Korea young investigator award (2016), SPIE Rising Researcher Award (2017), Korean MSIP Minister’s Commendation (2017), Proud POSTECHIAN Award (2018), Korean MSIT Minister’s Commendation (2019) and Korean Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2019).