Young Investigator Award
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Micromachines 2020 Young Investigator Award is Dr. Junsuk Rho.
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), 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, 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.
As the awardee, Dr. Junsuk Rho will receive an honorarium of 2000 CHF, an offer to publish a paper free of charge in Micromachines after peer-review, and an engraved plaque.
We would like to thank all nominators from various fields of study for their participation and all Award Committee Members for their evaluation of the abundant excellent nominations.
Micromachines 2020 Young Investigator Evaluation Committee
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