Ihm Jisoon

Ihm Jisoon
Born 1951 (age 66–67)
South Korea
Residence Seoul, South Korea
Nationality South Korean
Alma mater B.S. Seoul National University, Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley, United States
Known for Computational materials physics
Awards Korea Science Award by President of Korea (1996)
Cheong-Am Award by Cheong-Am Foundation (2007)
Korea Scientist of Highest Honor (2007)
Scientific career
Fields Solid-State Physics Theory
Institutions Seoul National University
Doctoral advisor Marvin L. Cohen
Ihm Jisoon
Hangul 임지순
Revised Romanization Im Ji-sun
McCune–Reischauer Im Chisun

Ihm Jisoon 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

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 has carried out research in the development of a novel computational formulation for calculating the total energy of solids based on quantum mechanics. His first paper published in 1979 spawned a new area in condensed matter physics, namely, “computational materials physics,” and the paper is nowadays regarded 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. 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. He was Director of the Center for Theoretical Physics at SNU during the period 2006–2010. 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.[2]

References

  1. ↑ http://physics.snu.ac.kr/~cmt/ihm.html
  2. ↑ "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
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