Byung Hee Hong

Byung Hee Hong received the BS (1998), MS (2000) and PhD (2002) degrees in chemistry from POSTECH. After spending 3.5 years as a postdoctoral candidate at the Columbia University (Advisor: Philip Kim), he joined the Department of Chemistry, Sungkyunkwan University as an assistant professor, in 2007. Now, he is an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry at the SNU. Prof. Hong pioneered the large-scale synthesis of graphene by CVD, which triggered chemical research studies toward the practical applications of graphene. For this contribution, he received the POSCO TJ Park Science Fellowship (2009), the SKKU Young Fellowship (2010), the Yumin Award of Science (2010), the Kyung-Ahm Prize of Natural Sciences (2011), and the Excellent Researcher Award in Materials Chemistry (Korean Chemical Society, 2012).