Zee Hwan Kim is currently a professor of Department of Chemistry at Seoul National University. His Ph.D. thesis research focuses on the role of vibrational excitation on the gas-phase atom-polyatom reaction, and asymmetric angular momentum polarization of photofragments. As a postdoctoral associate at UC Berkeley in 2002-2004, he studied near-field microscopy techniques. Before joining the Chemistry Department at SNU, he was an associate and an assistant professor at Korea University (Seoul, Korea). His research group at SNU focuses on nanoparticle plasmonics, single molecule SERS, and development of optical nanoscopy techniques.
EDUCATION and PROFESSIONAL CAREER
B.S. (1995) Chemistry, Seoul National University
Ph.D. (2002) Physical Chemistry, Stanford University (thesis advisor: Richard N. Zare)
Postdoctoral Associate (2002-2005), University of California, Berkeley (PI: Stephen R. Leone)
Assistant and Associate Professor (2005-2013), Dept. of Chemistry, Korea Univ. (Seoul, KR)
Associate Professor (2013-2018), Dept. of Chemistry, Seoul Nat’l Univ. (Seoul, KR)
Professor(2018-present), Dept. of Chemistry, Seoul Nat’l Univ. (Seoul, KR)
AWARDS
Best Teaching Award (Seoul National Univ. 2015, 2020)
KCS-Wiley Young Chemist Award (2009)
Seok-Tap Teaching Award (Korea University, 2008)