Welcome

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, and next generation scalable nanomanufacturing 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 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 Incubic/Milton Chang Award (2013), Samsung Lee Kun-Hee fellowship (2008-2013), DOE 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) and Korean Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2019).


[Recent Group News]

2020.10
Prof. Rho receives the Young Investigator Award from the Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry supported by Miwon Commercial

2020.09
Prof. Rho receives the 2020 MEE/MNE Young Investigator Award and Lectureship from the Microelectronic Engineering and Micro & Nano Engineering Conference supported by Elsevier

2020.09
Minkyung's topological metamaterials work is published in Nanophotonics [Link]

2020.09
Minkyung's topological photonics work and Jungho, Minkyung, Younghwan, Trevon's chirality work are published in Light: Science and Applications [Link][Link]

2020.09
Inki and Jungho's cascade domino lithography work is published in Materials Today [Link]


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
Jaehyuck's OAM metasurface work in collaboration with LMU (Prof. Stefan Maier and Dr. Haoran Ren) is accepted in Nature Nanotechnology

2020.07
Prof. Rho receives the MINE 2020 Young Scientist Award (in Advanced Micro & Nano Fabrication) supported by Microsystems and Nanoengineering, Springer-Nature [Link]

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

2020.07
Minkyung and Dasol's spin Hall effect work is published in APL Photonics [Link]

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)


2020.05
Prof. Rho's "Introduction to Nanoscale Science and Engineering" class is online in STAR-MOOC [Link]
Nanoscience and Future Technology I: Fundamentals and Basic Principles (나노과학과 미래기술: 원리와 기초) [Link]
Nanoscience and Future Technology II: Fabrication and Applications (나노과학과 미래기술: 제작과 응용) [Link]

2020.05
Minkyung's topological metamaterials work is published in Physical Review B [Link]


2020.05

2020.04
Sunae receives Ruth L. Satter memorial award from POSTECH

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
Heonyeong, Younghwan and Hanlyun's metasurface work is published in Microelectronic Engineering [Link]

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 ASME Journal of Micro- and Nano-Manufacturing

2019.12
Dongwoo's phononic crystals work is published in Physical Review E [Link]

2019.12
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"

2019.12
Gwanho's metasurface zoneplate work is published in Communications Physics [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
Gwanho and Jeonghyun's metasurface hologram work is published in Communications Physics [Link]

2019.10
Minkyung and Dasol's hyperbolic metamaterials work is published in ACS Photonics [Link]
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)

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, 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
Gwanho receives the prestigious SPIE scholarship in Optics and Photonics and the award ceremony will hold in SPIE Optics and Photonics, San Diego, USA (2019.08) [Link]

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
Iman's deep learning work is published in Scientific Reports [Link]


2019.07
Sunae and Jungho's deep learning work is published in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces [Link]

2019.07
Dasol's metasurfacse-based imaging  work is published in Optical Materials Express [Link]

2019.07
Sunae's deep learning work is published in Nanophotonics [Link]

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
Dongwoo's acoustic phononic crystal work is published in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter [Link]

2019.06
Minkyung, Dongwoo and Dasol's topological metamaterial work is published in Physical Review B [Link]

2019.06
Iman and Jeonghyun's deep learning work is published in Microsystems and Nanoengineering [Link]

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
Jungho's chirality work is published in Nanophotonics [Link]

2019.05
Inki receives the prestigious Carlsberg Foundation Scholarship in the 9th International Conference on Surface Plasmon Photonics (SPP9), Copenhagen, Denmark [Link]

2019.05
Jungho, Dasol and Sunae's surface-enhanced spectroscopy work is published in Applied Spectroscopy Reviews [Link]

2019.04
Prof. Rho receives the Ministry of Science and ICT (과학기술정보통신부) Minister's Commendation for the achievements in nanostructures fabrication

2019.04

2019.04
Inki and Dasol's metasurface hologram work is published in Laser and Photonics Review [Link]

2019.04
Prof. Rho's nanofabrication work is published in Applied Physics Express [Link]

2019.04
Dongwoo's acoustic metamaterials work is published in Applied Physics Express [Link]

2019.04

2019.03
Prof. Rho receives the distinguished lectureship award from the Chemical Society of Japan, Kobe, Japan 

2019.03
Sunae's flat hyperlens work is published in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics [Link]

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)

2019.02
Iman's deep learning work is published in Optics Express [Link]

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)

2019.01
Byoungsu's radiative cooling work is published in Energies [Link]

2018.12
Nano Convergence is confirmed to be registered in SCIE [Link] 

2018.11
Prof. Rho is awarded for the 2018 Proud POSTECHIAN Award (research/engineering)

2018.11
Jaehyuck receives the best poster award (silver) in ENGE 2018, Jeju, Korea

2018.11
Dr. Raeis-Hosseini's GST metasurface work is published in Advanced Electronic Materials [Link] 

2018.11
Inki's 3D metamaterials work in collaboration with Southeast University (Prof. Zhenggao Dong) is published in RSC Advances [Link] 

2018.11
Sanghun and Jeonghyun's tunable metamaterials work is published in Micromachines [Link]

2018.10
Jaehyuck receives the best oral presentation award in OSJ-OSA-OSK Joint Symposium on Optics, Tokyo, Japan

2018.10
Our group is awarded for Korea-Oceania collaborational grant (co-PI: Prof. Stefano Palomba in Physics, University of Sydney) for super-resolution bioimaging by National Research Foundation, Korea (2018.11-2020.10)

2018.10
Our group is awarded for the extension grant of the X-Project for broadband negative index metamaterials for visible-NIR wavelength (2018.11 - 2019.10)

2018.10
Inki and Heonyeong's metasurface vortex generation work in collaboration with Information Technology University (Prof. Muhammad Qasim Mehmood) is published in Nanoscale [Link]

2018.10
Inki and Sunae's metasurface absorber work is published in Nanophotonics [Link]

2018.10
Inki, Gwanho and Jaehyuck's metasurfaces-based display perspective article is published in ACS Photonics [Link] 

2018.09
Inki and Heonyeong's scrambling metasurface work in collaboration with National University of Singapore (Prof. Cheng-Wei Qiu) and Wuhan University (Prof. Guoxing Zheng) is published in Light: Science and Applications [Link]

2018.09
Jungho's diffraction grating simulation program is copyrighted as a registered software in Korea by Korea Copyright Commission

2018.09
Prof. Rho is appointed as an adjunct professor in Mechanical Engineering at Yonsei University and POSTECH-Yonsei Open Campus Program

2018.09
Prof. Rho is promoted to Associate Professor

2018.08
Jungho's perovskite photonic device work in collaboration with POSTECH (Prof. Kilwon Cho) is published in Advanced Functional Materials [Link]

2018.08
Dasol and Dr. Nguyen's perfect absorber work is published in Scientific Reports [Link]

2018.08
Prof. Rho serves the general co-chair for the 3rd A3 (Korea/Japan/China) Metamaterials Forum at POSTECH, August, 2018


2018.08
Dongwoo receives the prestigious Global Ph.D. fellowship from National Research Foundation of Korea (2018.03 - 2023.02)

2018.08
Prof. Rho, Dasol, Jeonghyun, Sanghun and Taejun attend the 40th Progress in Electromagnetics Symposium (PIERS) in Toyama (2018.08.01-2018.08.04)

2018.07
Dasol, Minkyung and Sunae's hyperlens work is published in ACS Photonics [Link]

2018.07
Gwanho's crypto-display work is published in ACS Nano [Link]

2018.07
Trevon's nanowire work is published in Scientific Reports [Link]

2018.07
Our group's metamaterials research demonstration in Nano Korea 2018 (KINTEX, Ilsan) is featured on Channel A TV 

2018.07
Dr. Sajedian receives the best poster award in Nano Korea 2018, Ilsan, Korea

2018.07
Our group is awarded for Korea-China collaborational grant (co-PI: Prof. Renmin Ma in Physics, Peking University) for PT symmetry laser by National Research Foundation, Korea and National Natural Science Foundation, China (2018.07-2020.06)

2018.07
Prof. Rho lab's metamaterials hologram work is awarded as an excellent research achievement of 2017

2018.07
Prof. Rho's interview about metamaterials is on MK Business News 

2018.06
Prof. Rho's 2D material work in collaboration with SKKU (Prof. Kyunghoon Kim) is published in Applied Physics Letters [Link]

2018.06
Gwanho's metasurface beam splitter work is published in Scientific Reports [Link]

2018.06
Our group is co-awarded for the Future Materials Discovery grant (PI: Heon Lee, Korea University) for zero-energy radiative cooling materials funded by National Research Foundation, Korea (2018.07 - 2023.12)


2018.05
Jungho's chirality work is published in Optics Letters [Link]

2018.05
Prof. Rho's acousto-plasmonic metasurfacework is published in Physical Review B [Link]

2018.05
Gwanho's metasurface hologram work is published in ACS Photonics [Link][Main page featured article]

2018.04
Minkyung's chirality work is published in Optics Express [Link]

2018.04
Inki's metasurface work in collaboration with SNU (Prof. Byoungho Lee) is published in Optics Express [Link]

2018.04
2018.03
Prof. Rho is elected for an associate editor for a Springer-Nature journal Nano Convergence

2018.03
Jungho's SERS work in collaboration with POSTECH (Prof. Kimoon Kim) is published in Journal of the American Chemical Society [Link]

2018.03
Prof. Rho wins Korea-Japan collaboration grant (co-PI: Dr. Takuo Tanaka, RIKEN) for nanofabrication funded by National Research Foundation, Korea and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan (2018.04 - 2020.03)

2018.03
Gwanho's metasurface hologram work in collaboration with SNU (Prof. Byoungho Lee) is published in Nanoscale [Link]

2018.03
Sunae, Minkyung and Dasol's super-resolution imaging work is published in Applied Spectroscopy Reviews [Link]

2018.02
Heonyeong and Inki's tungsten metasurface work is published in Scientific Reports [Link]

2018.02
Jaehyuck wins the best poster award in the 7th nano-Imprint-Molding-Print Forum (nano-IMP 2018), Seoul, Korea

2018.01
Minkyung's gain metamaterial work is published in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter [Link]

2018.01
Taejoon, Jaehyuck and Heonyeong's structural coloring work is published in Nano Convergence [Link]

2018.01
Prof. Rho is on JTBC TV show to comment nanoscience and invisibility cloaking

2017.12
Our hologram research is featured as a leading example of academic (POSTECH)-industrial (LG Display) collaboration [동아일보]

2017.11
Our lab is awarded for the Certificate of National Leading Laboratory of Safety Management

2017.11
Prof. Rho is on YTN Science TV show to discuss smart wear technology including invisibility cloak, wearable devices and 3D printing

2017.11
Prof. Rho wins Korea(NRF)-EU(ERC) collaboration grant (co-PI: Prof. Thomas Zentgraf in Physics, University of Paderborn, Germany) as an extension grant of Young Investigator Award (2017.11 - 2018.06)

2017.11
Our group is co-awarded for the initiative grant for the Future Materials Discovery grant (PI: Heon Lee, Korea University) for zero-energy cooling funded by National Research Foundation, Korea (2017.12 - 2018.03)

2017.11
Trevon's metasurface work work is published in Journal of Nanomaterials [Link]

2017.10
Our group is awarded for the X-Project grant for broadband negative index metamaterials for visible-NIR wavelength (2017.11 - 2018.10)


2017.09
Minkyung's optical diode work is published in Advanced Optical Materials [Link] and is selected in the most downloaded articles in September, 2017

2017.09
Dr. Sajedian's two non-linear metamaterial works are published in Optics Communications [Paper1 Link][Paper2 Link] 

2017.09
Our group is awarded for Strategical Research grant for machine learning-assisted plasmonic nanostructures design funded by National Research Foundation, Korea (2017.09-2019.08)

2017.09
Dasol, Minkyung and Sunae's hyperlens work is published in Journal of Visualized Experiments [Link]

2017.09
Dr. Hosseini's phase change materials work is published in Materials [Link]

2017.08
Gwanho receives the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)-Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems/Global Research Award (Mitacs/GRA) fellowship for the exchange research at the University of Toronto (Host: Prof. Joyce Poon in Electrical Engineering), Canada (2018.01 - 2018.04)

2017.07
Sunae and Minkyung receive the prestigious Global Ph.D. fellowships from National Research Foundation of Korea (2017.03 - 2022.02)

2017.07
Dongwoo and Jaehyuck receives the prestigious Hyundai Motor Chung Mong-Koo Fellowship (2017.09-2022.08)

2017.07
Gwanho and Inki's e-beam lithography overlay work is published in Scientific Reports [Link]

2017.07
Prof. Rho serves the general chair with Prof. Said Zouhdi (University of Paris-Sud) and Dr. Hakjoo Lee (Center for Advanced Metamaterials) for the 8th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics (META'17) which will be held in Songdo Convensia, Seoul/Incheon, July, 2017

2017.07
Prof. Rho serves the general chair with Prof. Namkyoo Park (Seoul National University) and Dr. Hakjoo Lee (Center for Advanced Metamaterials) for the META pre-conference workshop in SNU campus, Seoul, July, 2017

2017.07
Prof. Rho receives the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (미래창조과학부) Minister's Commendation for the achievements in hyperlens-based super-resolution imaging

2017.07
Jaehyuck receives the best poster award in Nano Korea 2017, Ilsan, Korea

2017.07
Prof. Rho attends the prestigious Gordon Research Conferences - Clusters/Nanostructures at the Moynt Holyoke College, South Hadley in Massachusetts, USA (2017.07.09-2017.07.14)

2017.07
Prof. Rho is introduced for the super-resolution microscope works in MK Business Newspaper

2017.06
Dasol visits University of California, San Diego (Host: Prof. Zhaowei Liu) for 2 weeks short-term research exchange supported by BK21+ program of Mechanical Engineering, POSTECH

2017.06
Prof. Rho interviews about the future of invisibility cloaking and metamaterials in Electronics Newspaper

2017.06
Prof. Rho serves the technical program committee (TPC) in one of the prestigious conferences, CLEO 2018 which will be held in San Jose, May, 2018 

2017.06
Prof. Rho wins Korea-Thailand collaboration grant (co-PI: Dr. Nitipat Ong Pholchai, King Mongkut's University of Technology in North Bangkok) for single quantum dot controlling funded by National Research Foundation, Korea and National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT) (2017.06 - 2017.11)

2017.06
Inki receives the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)-German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) fellowship for the exchange research at the University of Heidelberg (Host: Prof. Laura Na Liu in Physics) in Germany (2017.07 - 2017.09)

2017.06
Dr. Nguyen's perfect absorber work is published in Scientific Reports [Link]

2017.05
Prof. Rho wins Korea-France collaboration grant (co-PI: Dr. Patrice Genevet, CNRS-CRHEA) for free-form metasurfaces funded by National Research Foundation, Korea and French National Research Agency (ANR) (2017.05 - 2018.04)

2017.04
Dasol receives the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)-Ministry of Science and Technology of China & China Science and Technology Exchange Center (MOST/CSTEC) fellowship for the exchange research at Peking University (Host: Prof. Renmin Ma in Physics) in China 

2017.04
Prof. Rho receives SPIE Rising Researcher Award in the recognition of seminal contribution to the super-resolution imaging, Anaheim, USA

2017.04
Dasol and Minkyung's hyperlens work is published in Scientific Reports [Link]

2017.04
Dr. Niloufar Hosseini wins the prestigious Korea Research Fellowship (KRF) for tunable perfect absorber metadevices funded by National Research Foundation, Korea (2017.04 - 2020.03)

2017.03
Our group hosts the 3rd International Nanophotonics Workshop "Frontiers in Metamaterials and Plasmonics"


2017.01
Prof. Rho is elected to an expert committee member of Presidential Advisory Council on Science and Technology (PACST) "국가과학기술자문회의 제4기 전문위원" (2017.01.01 - 2017.12.31) [Link] 

2016.12
Prof. Rho hosts the 1st ERC-RIKEN joint symposium in RIKEN Wako Campus, Tokyo, Japan

2016.11
Minkyung and Sunae's hyperbolic metamaterials work is published in Scientific Reports [Link]

2016.11
Prof. Rho's total citation is over 1000 times in google citation!

2016.11
Dasol wins the best poster award in nanodevices and processing division in the 3rd International Conference and Exhibition on Nanotechnology (NANOPIA 2016), Changwon, Korea

2016.10
Prof. Rho is invited to prestigious the 47th Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics (PQE-2017) holding in Snowbird, Utah, USA, January, 2017

2016.08
Our group is awarded for the X-Project grant for virus detectable spraying sensor development (2016.08 - 2018.07)

2016.07
Our group joins the core-to-core research program for Advanced Nanophotonics supported by Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (PI: Dr. Takuo Tanaka, RIKEN)  (2016.12 - 2021.11)

2016.07
Inki receives the prestigious Global Ph.D. fellowship from National Research Foundation of Korea (2016.03 - 2021.02)

2016.07
Our group joins Global Frontier Research Center for Advanced Metamaterials (Director: Dr. Hakjoo Lee, Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials) and is co-awarded for the research grant (PI: Prof. Namkyoo Park, Seoul National University) for metamaterials structural design (Phase II: 2016.07 - 2019.02)

2016.07
Prof. Rho wins Korea (NRF)-EU (ERC) collaboration grant (co-PI: Dr. Patrice Genevet, CNRS-CRHEA, France) as an extension grant of Young Investigator Award (2016.07 - 2018.06)

2016.07
Minkyung and Sunae visit Imperial College London (Host: Prof. Ortwin Hess in Physics) in United Kingdom for the exchange research (2016.07 - 2016.09)

2016.07
Prof. Rho, Minkyung and Jungho attend the prestigious Gordon Research Conference - Plasmonics and Nanophotonics at the Sunday River Resort in Maine, USA (2016.07.10-2016.07.15)

2016.07
Inki receives the best poster award at Nano Korea 2016 where Inki, Dasol, Gwanho, Sunae, Yongjoon present the posters, Seoul, Korea

2016.07
Gwanho receives the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)-German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) fellowship for the exchange research at the University of Tubingen (Host: Prof. Monika Fleischer in Physics) in Germany (2016.07 - 2016.09)

2016.06
Our group is awarded for the Leading Core Technology Development grant funded by Agency for Defense Development (ADD), Korea (2016.06 - 2018.05)

2016.06
Prof. Rho serves the technical program committee (TPC) in one of the prestigious conferences, CLEO 2017 which will be held in San Jose, May, 2017 

2016.03
Our group hosts the 2nd International Nanophotonics Workshop "Frontiers in Metamaterials and Plasmonics"

2016.03
Prof. Rho is invited to prestigious Gordon Research Conferences - Plasmonics/Nanophotonics (Maine, USA, July, 2016)

2016.03
Prof. Rho gives a public talk to children in Friday's Science Touch

2016.01
Prof. Rho is introduced for his research achievements and vision in Electronics Newspaper

2016.01
Prof. Rho is selected for the prestigious Young Investigator Award from the Optical Society of Korea (OSK) which is annually given to the most promising young scientist under the age of 35

2016.01
Prof. Rho's switchable chiral metamaterial paper in Nature Communications has been cited 100 times!

2015.11
Our group is co-awarded for the initiative grant for the Creative Materials Discovery grant (PI: Jongkyu Kim in Materials Science, POSTECH) for 3D hybrid nanostructures funded by National Research Foundation, Korea (2015.11 - 2016.04)

2015.10
Our group participates in the 5th Advanced Optoelectronics and Micro/Nano-Optics (AOM 2015) in Hangzhou, China

2015.10
Prof. Rho comments about the realization of invisibility cloaking in MN Business Newspaper


2015.08
Our group is co-awarded for the Engineering Research Center (ERC) for the optically-assisted ultrahigh-precision mechanical systems (Director: Prof. Shinil Kang, Yonsei University) funded by National Research Foundation, Korea (2015.08 - 2022.02)

2015.08
Our group hosts the 1st International Nanophotonics Workshop "Frontiers in Metamaterials and Plasmonics"

2015.08
Our group is awarded for Korea-Germany collaborational grant (co-PI: Prof. Thomas Zentgraf in Physics, University of Paderborn) for scalable metamaterials fabrication funded by National Research Foundation, Korea and Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany (2015.08-2017.07)

2015.07
Prof. Rho wins the Young Investigator grant for 3D metamaterials funded by National Research Foundation, Korea (2015.07-2018.06)

2015.07
Our group is awarded for Korea-China collaborational grant (co-PI: prof. Zhenggao Dong in Physics, Southeast University) for 3D metamaterials funded by National Research Foundation, Korea and National Natural Science Foundation, China (2015.07-2017.06)

2015.05
Our group is awarded for Korea-UK Focal Point program (co-PI: Prof. Shuang Zhang in Physics, University of Birmingham) for advanced materials funded by National Research Foundation, Korea and UK Embassy in Korea (2015.05-2017.04)

2015.02
Prof. Rho's recent work "Predicting nonlinear properties of metamaterials from the linear response" is published in Nature Materials