Honors and Awards
12020 Clarivate Citation Laureate, September 2020
2IUVSTA* Prize for Technology, Aug, 2016 (*International Union for Vacuum Science, Technique and Applications)
3The Korea S&T Award (Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning; Korean Federation of Science and technology Societies), July, 2016
4Ho-Am Prize (Samsung Hoam Foundation), June 2012
5SNU Distinguished Fellow (only 3 Professors in SNU), February, 2010
6Top 100 Chemists of the decade (2000-2010) by UNESCO&IUPAC(ranked at 37th in chemistry area; 19th in Materials Science)
7POSCO-T J Park Award, POSCO-ChungAm Foundation, March, 2008
8The 4th DuPont Science and Technology Award, DuPont Korea, April, 2005
95th Korean Young Scientist Award, Awarded to one researcher in a given field per every other year by the President of Korea, March, 2002
10Scientist of the Month Award, Ministry of Science and Technology,Korea, August, 2002
11Shinyang Science Award, Shinyang Foundation, December, 2007
12Excellent Researcher Award, Division of Inorganic Chemistry of the Korean Chemical Society, April, 2005
13The first Korean Chemical Society-Wiley Young Chemist Award, Korean Chemical Society, October, 2001
14T. S. Piper Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Inorganic Chemistry, 1996 (Best thesis award in the Inorganic Chemistry Division of UIUC)
15Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry,
16University of Illinois Chemistry Department Fellowship,1993-1996
17Korean Government Oversea Fellowship,1991-1996
18Peer reviewr for Nature Materials, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chemi, Adv. Mater., J. Phys. Chem., Chem. Mater., Small, and ChemComm