Leading Scientists
Chemistry
Taeghwan Hyeon
SNU Distinguished Professor, Director
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Seoul National University,Center for Nanoparticle
Education
- Research Fellow : Catalysis Center, Northwestern University, (Advisor: Wolfgang M.H. Sachtler), United States
- PhD: Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, (Advisor: Kenneth S. Suslick), United States
- MSc: Inorganic Chemistry, Seoul National University, Korea
- BSc: Chemistry, Seoul National University, Korea
Professional Experience
- 2017-Present SNU Distinguished Professor, Seoul National University, Korea
- 2012-Present Director, Center for Nanoparticle Research, Institute for Basic Science, Korea
- 2010-2020 Associate Editor, Journal of the American Chemical Society, American Chemical Society
- 2002-2010 Director, National Creative Research Center for Oxide Nanocrystalline Materials, Korea
- 1997-Present Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea
Honors and Awards
- 2024 International Member, National Academy of Engineering, United States
- 2023 International Fellow, Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, Sweden
- 2020 Citation Laureate in Chemistry, Clarivate
- 2016 Presidential Award for Korea’s Best Scientist
- 2012 Ho-Am Prize, Samsung Ho-Am Foundation, Korea
- 2010 Fellow, Korean Academy of Science and Technology
Research Interests
- Synthesis and applications of functional inorganic
Publications (Max 5)
- Junseok Moon, Seungwoo Yoo, Jaehyuk Shim, Sungeun Heo, Jeong Hyun Kim, Megalamane S Bootharaju, Kug-Seung Lee, Jaeyune Ryu, Yung-Eun Sung, Taeghwan Hyeon* “Cross-material Catalyst Discovery via Deep Learning”, Nature Materials, 2026 , 25, 1393–1401
- Myoung Hwan Oh, Min Gee Cho, Dong Young Chung, Inchul Park, Youngwook Paul Kwon, Colin Ophus, Dokyoon Kim, Min Gyu Kim, Beomgyun Jeong, X. Wendy Gu, Jinwoung Jo, Ji Mun Yoo, Jaeyoung Hong, Sara McMains, Kisuk Kang, Yung-Eun Sung, A. Paul Alivisatos*, Taeghwan Hyeon* “Design and Synthesis of Multigrain Nanocrystals via Geometric Misfit Strain”, Nature, 2020, 577, 359-363
- Myoung Hwan Oh, Taekyung Yu, Seung-Ho Yu, Byungkwon Lim, Kyung-Tae Ko, Marc-Georg Willinger, Dong-Hwa Seo, Byung Hyo Kim, Min Gee Cho, Jae-Hoon Park, Kisuk Kang, Yung-Eun Sung, Nicola Pinna*, Taeghwan Hyeon* “Galvanic Replacement Reactions in Metal Oxide Nanocrystals”, Science, 2013, 340, 964-968
- Jongnam Park, Kwangjin An, Yosun Hwang, Je-Geun Park, Han-Jin Noh, Jae-Young Kim, Jae-Hoon Park, Nong-Moon Hwang, Taeghwan Hyeon*, “Ultra-large-scale Syntheses of Monodisperse Nanocrystals”, Nature Materials, 2004, 3, 891-895
- Taeghwan Hyeon,* Su Seong Lee, Jongnam Park, Yunhee Chung, Hyon Bin Na, “Synthesis of Highly-Crystalline and Monodisperse Maghemite Nanocrystallites without a Size-Selection Process”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2001, 123, 12798-12801
