Cho Minhaeng

Minhaeng Cho (born 26 February 1965) is a South Korean scientist in researching physical chemistry, spectroscopy, and microscopy. He joined the faculty of the Department of Chemistry, College of Science, in Korea University (http://www.korea.ac.kr/) in 1996. His research group actively studies nonlinear optical and vibrational spectroscopy, molecular dynamics simulations of chemical and biological systems in condensed phases, quantum dynamics of chemical reactions, linear and nonlinear chiroptical spectroscopy of biomolecules, quantum spectroscopy and imaging with high-precision laser technology, interferometric measurements of scattering fields for single particle tracking, chemically sensitive spectroscopy and imaging, surface-specific spectroscopy, and ultrafast vibrational microspectroscopy. He directed the National Creative Research Initiative Center for Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy (2000–2009). In December 2014, he was appointed as the Director of the IBS (Institute for Basic Science) Center for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics, located in Korea University, Seoul, South Korea.

Professor Cho is the director of the Center for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics, established in Dec. 2014. Director Cho received both his B.S. and M.S. from Seoul National University in 1987 and 1989 respectively before studying in the U.S. where he gained his Ph.D. in 1993 from the University of Chicago working in the group of Graham Fleming. He returned to Korea in 1996 as an Assistant Professor at the Korea University after a two-year post-doctoral research experience at MIT, Cambridge, USA. He was made a full Professor at Korea University in 2003 before his directorship with IBS.

He returned to Korea in 1996 as an Assistant Professor at the Korea University after a two-year post-doctoral research experience at MIT, Cambridge, USA. He was made a full Professor at Korea University in 2003 before becoming the director of the IBS Center for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics, established in December 2014.

In 2002, Cho was the chairman of the 1st International Conference on Multidimensional Vibrational Spectroscopy, held at Korea University in Seoul. He was a member of the International Cooperation Committee, Korea Chemical Society from 2003 to 2006. In 1995 he received the

Nobel Laureate Signature Award from the American Chemical Society.

• Seok-Top Lecturer (Korea University) 2013

• National Academy of Science, Korea (NAS) Award 2012

• Korea Academy of Science and Technology (KAST) Award 2011

• Kyung-Am Prize(Kyung-Am Found) 2010

• Scientist of the month(KRF) 2009

• Young Scholar Award (Pacifichem 2000) 2000

• Shonan Lecturer (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Hayama, Japan). 2000

• British Chevening Award (British Council, Seoul, Korea) 1999

• Young Scientist Award (KAST) 1999

• Nobel Laureate Signature Award (American Chemical Society, U.S.A.) 1995

• Marc P. Galler Prize (University of Chicago, U.S.A.) 1994

• William R. Harper Fellowship (University of Chicago, U.S.A). 1992

• Korean Government Scholarship (Ministry of Education, Korea) 1989-1992