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Open Positions

Postdoc positions

Postdoc positions are available in the field of either (1) ionic liquids or (2) single-molecule biophysics.

For details, please contact doseok@sogang.ac.kr.
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Undergraduate and graduate students

Graduate-level students interested in learning optical and spectroscopic techniques to investigate soft matters and biomolecules are always welcome to visit our lab.

We also can support undergraduate students interested in joining our group to see what happens in the lab as well!

Lab News ---

April 21, 2014

Prof. Kim is out of office to Hanoi to attend Sogang-HUS symposium from 21st to 23rd.

April 16, 2014

Most of the group members are out of the office to attend Korean Chemical Society (KCS) meeting.

March 10, 2014

Woongmo and Sunchul have been in Hanoi to visit Vietnam National University (Dr. Tuan's lab) and Vietnam Academy of Sciences (to Vu Duong). Prof. Kim has been in Denver for APS meeting from Mar. 2nd till 8th.

Feb. 11, 2014

Prof. Kim will visit San Francisco for a BPS meeting from Feb. 15th to 19th.

Jan. 22, 2014

Our work with Mingqi was introduced in Advances in Engineering html.

Dec. 18, 2013

Seoncheol got a student presentation award from the KPS meeting in November. Congratulations!

Nov. 21, 2013

Prof. Kim will gave an invited talk at Dasan Conference in Jeju Island.

Nov. 5, 2013

Prof. Kim will stay at Vietnam National University till Nov. 18th. He will teach Solid State Physics to undergraduate students in Physics.

Oct. 31, 2013

Dr. Sunghyun Kim has moved to a postdoc position in the Delft Institute of Technology. Good luck!

'Oct. 14, 2013'

Prof. Kim will give a talk at 'The 6th GIST-KAIST-APCTP Innovative Workshop on Soft/Bio materials' on Oct. 18th. The program can be found here. html

Sep. 20, 2013

Prof. Kim will visit Royal University of Phnom Penh from Sep. 26th to 28th.

Aug. 20, 2013

Some of us will visit David Vaknin at Ames National Laboratory from Aug. 25th. Prof. Kim will stay there for a month, and Woongmo and Jonggwan for a couple of weeks.

Aug 20, 2013

Takako Imamura from Tohoku University will visit our lab on Saturday Aug. 24th, and will give a talk with a title of "Salt effects on water surface orientational structure studied by computational analysis of Sum Frequency Generation spectra" during the group meeting.

Aug 12, 2013

Dr. Dheeraj Singh joined our lab as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome!

July 25, 2013

Prof. Yongseok Jho from APCTP visited our laboratory on July 24th, and gave a talk on "Charge interaction in water."

July 8, 2013

Prof. Ed Castner from Rutgers University visited our laboratory last Monday and Tuesday (July 1st and 2nd). He gave a talk with a title of "Structure, interactions, and chemistry in ionic liquids."

June 13, 2013

The paper by MIngqi was selected as one of the cover article from Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data. Have a look! html

April 30, 2013

Jaejin got the poster award at the KPS meeting in Daejeon last week. Congratulations!

April 29, 2013

Dr. Masahito Oh-e will give a Departmental seminar on 'Anisotropy in the amorphous film of cross-shaped molecules with an accompanying effect on carrier mobility' on May 2nd (Thursday) at 10:30AM.

April 27, 2013

Dr. Chae Un Kim from Cornell Univ. is visiting our Department on Apr. 30th (Tue.). He will give a Departmental seminar on 'Glass-to-liquid Transition of Water at Cryogenic Temperatures' at 1:30PM, and Departmental colloquium on 'Fundamentals of X-ray Protein Crystallography' after the seminar at 4:30PM.

April 27, 2013

Dr. Masahito Oh-e from Sharp is visiting our lab from today for a week. He will give a seminar sometime next week. Welcome!

April 20, 2013

Prof. Kim and Woongmo will attend the 5th COIL (Congress on Ionic Liquids) at Algarve, Portugal next week. Vu Duong left the group to work at Institute of Physics in Hanoi.

April 18, 2013

Hyeon-Gi is getting married on April 27th. Congratulations!

Mar. 16, 2013

Se Tola from Cambodia joined our lab as a graduate student. Prof. Kim will be out of town to Baltimore to attend the APS meeting from Mar. 17st till 23rd.

Jan. 28, 2013

Prof. Kim and SungHyun will be out of town to Philadelphia to attend the BPS meeting from Feb. 1st till 7th. We will have a party with Prof. Shen and Mrs. Shen on Feb. 8th; the place will be announced later.

Nov. 26, 2012

Prof. Kim and Vu Duong will be out of town to Ho Chi Minh city at Vietnam for a conference from Nov 27th till Nov. 30th.

Oct. 19, 2012

Prof. Nguyen Anh Tuan from Vietnam National University at Hanoi is visiting our lab from Nov. 16th till 23rd. He will give a seminar on 'Sum Frequency Generation Confocal Microscope and SFG Image of Rice Grains' in the group meeting on 17th.

Oct. 19, 2012

Prof. Kim will be out of town for KPS meeting from 24th 26th, and then to Ha Long at Vietnam for a conference from 29th till Nov. 2nd.

Oct. 2, 2012

Mingqi gave birth to a beautiful daughter on Aug. 14th. Her (Mingqi's daughter's) photo can be found if your come to my office!

Sep. 12, 2012

JongGwan was selected for the Global Talent Project. Congratulations!

Aug. 20, 2012

Many of us will be out of town to attend OSK meeting and International Symposium on Advanced Photonic Science and Technology from Aug. 26th for several days.

July. 30, 2012

Prof Wookyung Sung from Postech will give lectures on Aug. 3rd (from 2 PM till ~4PM, tentatively at R1029) on the following topics.

1. Time Correlation Functions and the Linear Response Theory

2. Stochastic Resonance from the Time Correlation

July. 2, 2012

Prof Kim will be out of town to MPI at Mainz, and to Paris to attend the LB14 conference from July 5th for two weeks.

June. 27, 2012

Sunchul and Woongmo will be out of town to Mischa Bonn's lab at MPI at Mainz, and to Paris to attend the LB14 conference from June 30th for two weeks. The program for LB 14 conference can be found here.

June. 15, 2012

Many of us will be out of town to KAIST from June 18th to 20th to attend 'Pioneers in Soft Matter Science'. The program can be found here.

May. 25, 2012

Sung Hyun got a presentation award from the KPS. Congratulations!

May 22, 2012

Prof. Kim and Woongmo will visit Ames National Laboratory and Iowa State University to visit Prof. David Vaknin from May 27th till June 1st to carry out the X-ray fluorescence experiment on ionic liquids.

Apr. 28, 2012

Dr. Vu Duong from Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology joined our group as a postdoctoral researcher. Dr. Masahito Oh-e from Sharp will stay in our lab from Apr. 27 till May 5th. We will have a welcome party for Duoung and Masahito on 28th.

Apr. 28, 2012

Prof. Kim gave a publich lecture to school kids last week. It can be found on The Science and www.sciencetouch.net.

Feb. 23, 2012

Prof. Shen is visiting our lab on Feb. 23rd and 24th.

Feb. 23, 2012

Congratulations on the graduation of Heesun, Sangjun, and Hyeongi!

Feb. 7, 2012

Prof. Kim and Woongmo will visit Vietnam National University from Feb. 15th till Feb. 17th. We will attend the joint symposium and initiate our collaboration on surface sum-freuency spectroscopy.

Feb. 7, 2012

Our work on discovery of surface crystallization of ionic liquid was just published on Physical Review Letters!

Jan. 28, 2012

Prof. Kim and Sunchul will visit Royal University at Phnom Penh from Jan. 29th till Feb. 5th to teach undergraduate laboratory courses.

Jan. 06, 2012

We will have a NEW YEAR'S PARTY on 6th Jan. at Prof. Kim's office starting from 7pm.

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