4 December 2020
Junsuk Rho Announced Winner of the Micromachines 2020 Young Investigator Award
We are pleased to announce Dr. Junsuk Rho to be the winner of the Micromachines 2020 Young Investigator Award. The final decision was extremely difficult to make given the extraordinary number of high-quality nominations that were received. We would like to thank all the nominees from various fields of study for their participation and all the Award Committee members for their efforts in evaluating the many nominations.
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Junsuk Rho is currently a Mu-Eun-Jae endowed Chair Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Chemical Engineering at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Republic of Korea. Before joining POSTECH, he received his B.S. (2007) and M.S. (2008) degrees in Mechanical Engineering at Seoul National University, Korea, and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, respectively. |
After receiving his Ph.D. (2013) in Mechanical Engineering and Nanoscale Science & Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, Junsuk Rho worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Materials Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Ugo Fano Fellow in the Nanoscience and Technology Division at Argonne National Laboratory. His research is focused on developing novel nanophotonic materials and devices based on fundamental physics and experimental studies of deep sub-wavelength light–matter interaction. Dr. Rho has published approximately 150 high-impact peer-reviewed journal papers and has also presented keynote and invited talks more than 250 times at world-leading institutes and international conferences/workshops. He also has 4 US patents and 26 Korean patents.
We congratulate the winner, Dr. Junsuk Rho, on his accomplishments. We wish him further success in his career.
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