We are pleased to announce that Professor Tae-Yeon Seong has been appointed Section Editor-in-Chief for the section “Semiconductor Devices” of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292).

Dr. Tae-Yeon Seong received his Ph.D. degree in materials science and engineering from the University of Oxford in 1992. After two years of research at the University of Oxford, he joined the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) in 1994. He carried out research at GIST for ~10 years, after which he was invited to be Chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), Korea University in September 2005, as a Professor of Materials Science; He served as Chair of the MSE Department and Director for the BK21 Center for Advanced Device Materials from 2011 to 2016. His research interests and activities include LEDs, transparent conducting oxides, nanomaterials and device applications, characterization of semiconductor and electronic materials, integration of TFT and μ-LEDs, IR sensors and filters, and memristors. Dr. Seong has published over 450 peer-reviewed journal papers and holds over 230 patents issued or pending. Dr. Seong was awarded the EPD award from ECS (2018). He is a fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK) (2008), SPIE (2013), the Electrochemical Society (ECS) (2017), and the Materials Research Society (MRS) (2018). He has served as an associate editor of Semiconductor Science and Technology (IOP) and an editorial board member (EBM) for over 10 years. He also served as an EBM or guest editor of several international journals, including the Journal of Solid-State Lighting, ECS journal of Solid-State Science and Technology, ECS Solid-State Letters, Electronic Materials Letters, and Physica Status Solidi.