Professor YOUN Kwangchul is performing at the Bayreuth Wagner Festival Professor YOUN Kwangchul (Department of Vocal Music) performed the roles of Daland in The Flying Dutchman and Hermann in Tannhäuser at the Bayreuth Festival on 25 and 26 July, 2014. The Bayreuth Festival is the most well-known festival of the German...

Recipients of the Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship for 2014 Professor CHUN Byung-Gon (Department of Computer Science and Engineering) received the Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship for 2014 on July 14. The Fellowship is a prestigious award given to young professors who have shown outstanding research results i...

Researcher RYOO Jeongmin Professor AHN Kwangseog and researcher RYOO Jeongmin (Dept. of Biological Sciences) have discovered an enzyme which breaks down HIV, the virus which causes AIDS, and presented a possibility for a new type of AIDS vaccine. This team found that ‘SAMHD-1’ protein, which consists of 626 amino acids...

Professor KIM Kee Hoon Professor KIM Kee Hoon (Department of Physics and Astronomy) has developed a magnet which can change poles without the help of a magnetic field. Magnetic materials, which are a key component in hard disks, record information usually by changing poles using magnetic fields. This caused many proble...

Professor CHO Kyu Jin Professor CHO Kyu Jin (Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) became the first Korean to be awarded the RAS Early Career Award (Academic) by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS). The RAS stated that Professor Cho was awarded for"fundamental contributions to soft robotics and biol...

Certificate award ceremony for SNU Leading Creative Researchers of 2014 SNU announced this year’s selection of Leading Creative Researchers as Professors WHANG Yoon-Jae (Dept. of Economics), NOH Tae Won (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy) and PARK Jongil (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences). Since 2012 the University has sele...

Professor KIM Jin-Soo’s research was published as the cover article of Genome Research Professor KIM Jin-Soo (Department of Chemistry) has developed a new method of using RNA-guided engineered nucleases (RGENs) to modify human genes. RNA-guided engineered nucleases (RGENs) use enzymes to cut certain parts of DNA in ord...

Professor KIM Youn Sang (Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology) has developed a transparent element which generates enough electricity to light an LED when it touches water. When a water drop touches the surface of an object with electric charge, a change in the object’s electric charge occurs. Professo...

Professor KANG Kisuk (Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering) Professor KANG Kisuk (Department of Materials Science and Engineering) has developed original technology for the production of next generation lithium secondary cell batteries along with KAIST and the Agency for Defense Development. Lithium secondary cel...

SNU Center for Advanced Research in Fusion Reactor Engineering The SNU Center for Advanced Research in Fusion Reactor Engineering (CARFRE) has been designated one of the leading engineering research centers in the country by the Ministry of Education. CARFRE, which opened in 2008, has received a total of 8,000,000,000 ...

Professor JHE Wonho (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy) Professor JHE Wonho (Department of Physics and Astronomy) has discovered the mechanism of titanium dioxide’s superhydrophilicity. When superhydrophilic material absorbs light, water dropped onto it does not form waterdrops, but instead spreads out widely. Professor J...

David Pendlebury’s ‘New List of Highly Cited Scientists 2002~2012’ named three SNU Professors V. Narry KIM (left), HYEON Taeghwan, and SURH YoungJoon (right). Thomson Reuters analyst David Pendlebury who is well known for his ‘Nobel Predictions’ released ‘New List of Highly Cited Scientists 2002~2012’ in a symposium he...