Principal Investigator
Department of Energy Science and Dept. of Chemistry
Sungkyunkwan University
300 Cheoncheon-dong, Jangan-gu,
Suwon, Gyeonggi-do 440-746, KOREA
Phone: 031-299-6270
Email: taeahn [at] skku.edu
Education
February 1993
B. S. in Chemistry, SeoulNationalUniversity,Seoul,Korea
February 1995
M. S. in Physical Chemistry, SeoulNationalUniversity, Seoul, Korea
Thesis: Multi-photon Ionization Study on Potassium and Their Solvated Clusters.
May 2005
Ph. D. in Physical Chemistry, SeoulNationalUniversity,Seoul,Korea
Thesis: Photophysical Studies on Porphyrins, Fullerenes, and Nanoparticles.
Academic Experiences
October 2001 – May 2005
Researcher with Prof. Dongho Kim
Under the condition of Cooperative Research with Seoul National University
Center for Ultrafast Optical Characteristics Control,
Yonsei University, Seoul, KOREA
May 2005 – December 2005
Postdoc Fellow
Center for Ultrafast Optical Characteristics Control and Department of Chemistry,
Yonsei University, Seoul, KOREA
January 2006 –July 2009
Postdoc Fellow
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley
Department of Chemistry
October 2009 – 2013
Assistant Professor
Department of Energy Science and Department of Chemistry,
Sungkyunkwan University
2013 – 2019
Associate Professor
Department of Energy Science and Department of Chemistry,
Sungkyunkwan University
Current
Professor
Department of Energy Science and Department of Chemistry,
Sungkyunkwan University
Research Experiences
1993 – 1995
Construction of a molecular beam machine and a TOF mass spectrometer
Construction of multiphoton ionization spectrometers
2001 – 2005
Time-resolved femtosecond spectroscopy of porphyrin and fullerene complexes in condensed phase (with prof. Dongho Kim in Yonsei University, Seoul, KOREA)
2003 – 2005
Gas phase femtosecond photoionization spectroscopy of DNA bases and their clusters
2006 –2007
Two-color two-demensional photon echo spectroscopy (2C, 2D PES) on photosynthetic light harvesting complexes.
2006 –
Ultrafine transient absorption spectroscopy on non-photochemical quenching processes in photosynthetic plants and algea.
2016-2017
Visiting Professor
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley
Department of Chemistry (with prof. Graham R. Fleming)
Academic Societies
Member of AAAS since 2008
Member of American Chemical Society since 2002
Member of Korean Chemical Society since 1993
Awards
Outstanding Thesis Award in Korean Chemical Society 2005 (No.1)
Korea Research Foundation Grant (2006) funded by the Korean Government (MOEHRD) (KRF-2006-214-C00037)
POSCO Science fellowship 2011