We are hiring highly motivated graduate students (Ph.D. or M.S/Ph.D. program), postdoctoral scholars and visiting scholars with the solid scientific background in one of the following areas: engineering (mechanical, chemical, electrical, optical preferred), physics, chemistry, materials science and biological science. Application through either Mechanical Engineering or Chemical Engineering program is available, please send a full CV via e-mail to Prof. Rho (jsrho@postech.ac.kr) [Detailed information / 학생모집공고 (교내 연구참여 포함)] [Laboratory Introduction and Brief Biography] Rho's research group is not only developing a new concept of novel optical nanomaterials having extraordinary and unprecedented eletromagnetic properties based on fundamental physics and experimental studies of deep sub-wavelength light-matter interaction, but also realizing engineering device applications including, but not limited to, super-resolution imaging, negative index materials, tunable high refractive index metasurface, highly efficient light trapping device, ultra-sensitive biomedical sensor, nanoscale laser, next generation scalable nanomanufacturing methods and deep-learning-based design methodologies. Prof. Rho is a Mu-Eun-Jae (无垠斋) Endowed Chair Associate Professor at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea, with a double appointment in the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with designated emphasis in Nanoscale Science and Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley (2013), M.S. in Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2008) and B.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Seoul National University, Korea (2007). Prior joining POSTECH, he conducted postdoctoral research in Materials Sciences Division & Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA, and also worked as a principal investigator (Ugo Fano Fellow) in Nanoscience and Technology Division & the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory, USA. Prof. Rho has authored and co-authored more than 150 high-impact journal papers including Science, Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Photonics and Nature Communications. He is also the recipients of several notable honors and awards such as MRS graduate student award (2011), SPIE scholarships in optics and photonics (2011,2012), OSA CLEO Incubic/Milton Chang Award (2013), Samsung Lee Kun-Hee fellowship (2008-2013), US Department of Energy Argonne Named fellowship (2014), Edmund Optics Award (2015), OSK Young Investigator Award (2016), SPIE Rising Researcher Award (2017), Korean Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning Minister's Commendation (2017), Distinguished Teaching Award at POSTECH (2018), Proud POSTECHIAN Award (2018), Korean Ministry of Science and ICT Minister's Commendation (2019), OSA IMCO Young Scientist Award (2019), Korean Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2019), OSK Rising Stars 30 (2020), Springer-Nature MINE Young Scientist Award (2020), Elsevier MEE/MNE Young Investigator Award and Lectureship (2020), MDPI Micromachines Young Investigator Award (2020), Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology (Y-KAST) Member (2020).  [Recent Group News] 2021.08 Minkyung and Sunae receive the prestigious SPIE scholarship in Optics and Photonics and the award ceremony will hold in SPIE Optics and Photonics, San Diego, USA (2021.08) [Link] 2021.07 2021.06 2021.06 Dong Kyo and Geon receive the prestigious Hyundai Motor Chung Mong-Koo Fellowship (2021.09-2026.08) 2021.06 Prof. Rho is selected for the outstanding reviewers of Nanoscale Horizons in 2020 [Link] 2021.06 Prof. Rho wins $10M grant of the POSCO-POSTECH-RIST (Industry-Academia-Research Institute) Convergence Center for Flat Optics and Meta-Photonics (2021.06-2030.05) 2021.06 Minkyung's topological photonics paper in Light: Science and Applications is selected as a top downloaded papers in 2020 [Link] 2021.05 "노준석 포스텍 교수, 광학 분야 권위지 빛: 과학과 응용 부편집인 선임" [동아사이언스][전자신문][헤럴드경제][뉴데일리][대경일보][경북도민일보][헬로디디][전자부품][브레이크뉴스][한국대학신문][베리타스알파] 2021.05 Yeseul receives the prestigious POSTECHIAN fellowship (2021.03-2022.02) 2021.05 Inki's LiDAR work in collaboration with CNRS-CRHEA (Dr. Patrice Genevet) is published in Nature Nanotechnology [Link] "자율주행차의 눈 '라이다' 나노광학 기술로 손가락 만하게 만든다" [동아사이언스][전자신문][연합뉴스][세계일보][매일경제][서울경제][헤럴드경제][파이낸셜뉴스][시사뉴스][헬로디디][뉴시스][대구신문][대구일보][대경일보][경북도민일보][경북매일][뉴데일리][일요신문][전자부품][정보통신신문][인공지능신문][브레이크뉴스][베리타스알파][보안뉴스][포항MBC][포항MBC 4'27''] 2021.04 Prof. Rho receives the POSTECH Young Distinguished Professorship (2021.04-2024.03) 2021.04 2021.04 Our metaholographic gas sensor work in collaboration with POSTECH (Prof. Young-Ki Kim) is published in Science Advances [Link] 2021.04 Our 3D metamaterials nanoprinting work in collaboration with SNU (Prof. Mansoo Choi) is published in Nature [Link] 2021.03 Our metahologram research is featured for the "Iron Man" technology 2021.03 2021.03 Inki receives the prestigious presidential Sejong Science fellowship (2021-2026) from the Ministry of Science and ICT of the Korean government 2021.03 Dasol receives the prestigious PIURI (POSTECH Initiative for fostering Unicorn of Research & Innovation) fellowship (2021-2023) [Link] 2021.02 Dongwoo receives the 27th Samsung Humantech Award in Mechanical Engineering  2021.02 Rho lab's first Ph.D., Dr. Gwanho Yoon is appointed as an assistant professor in Manufacturing Systems and Design Engineering at Seoul National University of Science and Technology  2021.02 Our chiral metamaterial works are featured in media 2021.02 2021.02 Minkyung and Dasol's spin Hall effect work in collaboration with KAIST (Prof. Bumki Min) is published in Laser and Photonics Reviews [Link] 2021.02   2021.01 2021.01 Jeonghyun's 3D metamaterials work in collaboration with CNRS-CRHEA (Dr. Patrice Genevet) is published in Physical Review Letters [Link] "‘빛’ 제어해 ‘철통 보안’ 달성한다.. 후방 위상 일치형 제2차 조화파 개발" [전자신문][뉴시스][시사뉴스][대경일보][경북일보][대구신문][경북도민일보][테크월드][뉴데일리][신아일보][베리타스알파] 2021.01 2021.01 Jaehyuck and Gyeongtae receive the best paper awards in Nano Convergence Conference 2021 [Link] 2021.01 Our metasurface hologram works are featured in media 2021.01 A "labcumentary" introduces our Nanoscale Photonics and Integrated Manufacturing Laboratory [Link] 2021.01 Gwanho's metalens work in collaboration with Samsung (Dr. Seunghoon Han) and Korea University (Prof. Heon Lee) is published in ACS Nano [Link] 2021.01 Dasol's radiative cooling work in collaboration with POSTECH (Prof. Jin Kon Kim) and Korea University (Prof. Heon Lee) is published in Nano Energy [Link] 2020.12 Prof. Rho is elected for a member of Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology (Y-KAST) "메타물질 관련 혁신적 연구로 '빛의 연금술'을 선보이는 노준석 포스텍 교수.. 한국 과학기술 이끌 차세대 회원 34명 선출" [조선일보][조선비즈][동아사이언스][연합뉴스][한국경제][YTN사이언스][전자신문][뉴시스][이데일리][머니투데이][헬로디디][아이뉴스24][아시아투데이] 2020.12 Our chiral metamaterial works are featured in media 2020.12 2020.11 Inki receives the best paper award (2nd place) in the 2020 Next Generation Lithography Conference 2020.11 Minkyung receives Iksung thesis award, and Inki, Younghwan, Sunae receive the best paper award for 1st, 2nd, 3rd place, respectively, from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, POSTECH 2020.11 Jaehyuck and Jungho receive the best paper awards (2nd place), each from the Department of Chemical Engineering, POSTECH 2020.11 Inki's metahologram work in collaboration with POSTECH (Prof. Young-Ki Kim) is published in Advanced Materials [Link] 2020.11 Prof. Rho wins Korea-France collaboration grant (co-PI: Dr. Patrice Genevet, CNRS-CRHEA) for AI-based color filter design funded by National Research Foundation of Korea and Embassy of France in Korea (2020.12 - 2022.11) 2020.11 2020.10 Prof. Rho gives a comment for a memorial article about science and technology development achievement by the former Samsung president Lee Kun-Hee 2020.10 Prof. Rho is selected for the 2020 next-generation leaders 100 from SISA Journal  2020.10 Prof. Rho receives the Young Investigator Award from the Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry supported by Miwon Commercial  2020.10   2020.09 Prof. Rho gives a public talk to children in Friday's Science Touch [YTN Science Link][Youtube Full Video Link] 2020.09 Jaehyuck's OAM metasurface work in collaboration with LMU (Prof. Stefan Maier and Dr. Haoran Ren) is published in Nature Nanotechnology [Link] 2020.09 Prof. Rho is elected for an area editor (associate editor) for the Elsevier Journal Micro and Nano Engineering 2020.09  2020.09 Prof. Rho is appointed as an adjunct professor in the Department of Creative IT Engineering at POSTECH 2020.09 2020.09 2020.09 Gwanho receives the NRF domestic postdoctoral fellowship for large-scale metalenses funded by National Research Foundation of Korea (2020.09-2021.08) 2020.08 2020.08 2020.07 Prof. Rho receives the MINE 2020 Young Scientist Award (in Advanced Micro & Nano Fabrication) supported by Microsystems and Nanoengineering, Springer-Nature [Link] "한국인 최초 MINE이 뽑은 ‘젊은 과학자상’ 수상" [동아사이언스][전자신문][조선일보][국민일보][한겨례][연합뉴스][한국경제][매일경제][매일경제TV][세계일보][서울비즈][뉴시스][경북신문][경북도민일보][신아일보][경북일보][대경일보][영남일보][대구신문][디지털타임스][뉴스웍스][뉴스원][폴리뉴스][베리타스알파][테크월드][한국강사신문]  2020.07 Gwanho's electromagnetic wave simulation software MAXIM is registered in Korea Copyright Commission [Download Link]  2020.07 Prof. Rho receives the Excellence Research Award supported by Nano Convergence in Nano Korea 2020 2020.06 Prof. Rho and Dasol are featured in NRF Basic Science Researchers Interview [Link] 2020.06 Yeseul receives the prestigious Hyundai Motor Chung Mong-Koo Fellowship (2020.09-2025.08) 2020.06  2020.05 2020.05 2020.05 Jaehyuck and Aizhan's tunable plasmonic chitosan humidity sensor work is published in Advanced Optical Materials [Link] "비오면 색 변하고, 알아서 햇볕 막아주는 똑똑한 창문들" [조선일보][동아사이언스][어린이동아][연합뉴스][조선비즈][전자신문][서울경제][해럴드경제][뉴시스][뉴데일리][경북도민일보][경북매일][영남일보][뉴데일리][Break News][EBN][베리타스알파]  2020.05 Our metamaterials work is featured as a stealth technology 2020.04 Sunae receives Ruth L. Satter memorial award from POSTECH 2020.04 Our hyperlens and hologram works are featured in a Mechanical Engineering information center, MERRIC 2020.03 Prof. Rho's interview about holograms is on a UK magazine The Face 2020.03 Prof. Rho is appointed as an adjunct professor in the Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence at POSTECH 2020.02 Prof. Rho's interview is featured in SNU Almuni Newspaper 2020.01 Prof. Rho is selected for the top referees of Advanced Optical Materials in 2019 [Link] 2020.01 Jungho's chiral nanoparticle work in collaboration with SNU (Prof. Ki Tae Nam) is published in Nature Communications [Link] 2020.01 Prof. Rho is elected for an associate editor for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Journal of Micro- and Nano-Manufacturing Prof. Rho receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (젊은과학자상(대통령상)) in the engineering group II - Mechanical, Materials, Aerospace, Naval and Industrial Engineering from the Korean Academy Science and Technology  2019.12 Our group hosts the 4th International Nanophotonics Workshop "Frontiers in Metamaterials and Plasmonics"  2019.11 Gwanho receives the Gold Award (out of only 2 Gold awards in total) in the 15th Samsung Electro-Mechanics paper competition [Link] 2019.11 Our group is awarded for the Future Defense Technology grant for the electromagnetic and sonar cloaking funded by National Research Foundation of Korea (2019.12 - 2020.06) 2019.11 Our group is awarded for the Green Science and Innovation grant for radiative cooling materials funded by POSCO (2019.12 - 2020.11) 2019.10 2019.10 2019.09 Inki's direction multiplexed metasurface hologram work in collaboration with Information Technology University (Prof. Muhammad Qasim Mehmood) is published in Nanoscale Horizons [Link] 2019.09 Prof. Rho participates in the 4th Korea-Australia cooperation meeting between the Ministry of Science and ICT and the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science of each country [Link] 2019.09 Our group is co-awarded for the Regional Leading Research Center (RLRC) (Director: Prof. Sangwoo Joo, Yeungnam University) funded by National Research Foundation, Korea (2019.09 - 2026.02) "청색기술 적용 '자율형 자동차' 산업 견인" [국민일보][뉴시스][경북매일][매일신문][영남일보][뉴데일리][NSP통신][대학저널][경북도민일보][베리타스알파][일요서울][한국공보뉴스][국제뉴스] 2019.09 Prof. Rho features holography technology article in Institute for Basic Science (IBS) Webzine 2019.09 Prof. Rho wins Korea-France collaboration grant (co-PI: Dr. Patrice Genevet, CNRS-CRHEA) for AI Photonics funded by National Research Foundation of Korea and Embassy of France in Korea (2019.09 - 2020.08) 2019.09 Taejoon receives the prestigious Global Ph.D. fellowship from National Research Foundation of Korea (2019.03 - 2024.02) 2019.09 Jaehyuck receives the prestigious Ph.D. candidate fellowship from National Research Foundation of Korea (2019.09 - 2021.08) 2019.08 Inki wins the best poster award in the 4th A3 (Korea-Japan-China) Metamaterials Forum, Sapporo, Japan  2019.08 Jeonghuyun, Sanghun and Aizhan receive a Master of Science degree for the first time in Prof. Rho's lab 2019.08  2019.08 Jaebum is selected as an educational exchange program for Artificial Intelligence at Carnegie Mellon University, USA (2019.09 - 2020.02) 2019.08 Our deep learning work is featured in Donga Science Magazine 2019.07 Gwanho's TiO2 metasurface work is published in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces [Link]  2019.07 "Artificial intelligence (AI) designs metamaterials used in the invisibility cloak" [EurekAlert - AAAS][Popular Mechanics][Popular Mechanics 2] 2019.07 Prof. Rho receives the Rising Stars of Light Nomination Award in the Light Conference (Light 2019), Changchun, China, supported by Light: Science and Applications, Springer-Nature 2019.07 Prof. Rho receives the Excellence Research Award supported by Nano Convergence in Nano Korea 2020 2019.06 Our Nature cover article of chiral nanoparticle work is featured in Donga Science Magazine 2019.06 Prof. Rho receives the OSA Young Scientist Award in the 9th International Multidisciplinary Conference on Optofluidics (IMCO 2019), Hong Kong  2019.06 Younghwan receives the prestigious Hyundai Motor Chung Mong-Koo Fellowship (2019.09-2024.08) 2019.06 Prof. Rho is appointed as a Mu-Eun-Jae (无垠斋 - the 1st POSTECH President, Ho-Gil Kim's nom de plume) Endowed Chair Associate Professor (2019.06 - 2021.05)  2019.06 Our group is awarded for the K-CLOUD grant for metamaterials for earthquakes prevention by Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (2019.06 - 2021.05) 2019.05 2019.05 Inki receives the prestigious Carlsberg Foundation Scholarship in the 9th International Conference on Surface Plasmon Photonics (SPP9), Copenhagen, Denmark [Link] 2019.04 Prof. Rho receives the Ministry of Science and ICT (과학기술정보통신부) Minister's Commendation for the achievements in nanostructures fabrication  2019.04 Our group is awarded for the Future Technology grant for metasurfaces-based security technology by Samsung Research Funding & Incubation Center (2019.06 - 2022.05) 2019.04 2019.03 Prof. Rho receives the distinguished lectureship award from the Chemical Society of Japan, Kobe, Japan  2019.02 Jaehyuck's structural color work is published in Advanced Optical Materials [Link]  2019.02 Heonyeong wins the best poster award in the 8th nano-Imprint-Molding-Print Forum (nano-IMP 2019), Daejon, Korea  2019.02 Our group is awarded for the mid-career researcher grant (type II) for hyperbolic metamaterials by National Research Foundation, Korea (2019.03 - 2024.02) 2019.01 Our group is awarded for the grant Phase III of Global Frontier Research Center for Advanced Metamaterials (Director: Dr. Hakjoo Lee, Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials) for metasurface holograms by National Research Foundation, Korea (2019.01 - 2023.08) |
