Asian Simposium Advanced Materials

BIRTH DATE

April 19, 1942

PRESENT AFFILIATION

Director and Professor
Center for Electro- and Photo- Responsive Molecules and Department of Chemistry, Korea University, Seoul, Korea 136-701
e-mail: jijin@korea.ac.kr, homepage: http://jijin.korea.ac.kr

EDUCATION

Ph. D. (1969. 6, City Univ. of New York, U.S.A.)
MA (1969. 2, Hunter College, CUNY, U.S.A.)
MS (1966. 2, Seoul National Univ.)
BS (1964. 2, SNU, Korea)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Research and Sr. Res. Chemist, Stauffer Chem. Co., U.S.A., 1969 - 1974
Professor, Chem. Dept., Korea University, 1974 - present
Director of Center for Electro and Photo-Responsive Molecules, Korea Univ., 1998 - present
Director, Advanced Materials Chemistry Research Inst., Korea Univ., 1994 - 1998
Visiting Prof., Univ. of Massachusetts, U.S.A., 1987, 1997
Visiting Scholar, Univ. of Cambridge, U.K., 1997
Dean, Graduate School of Korea University, 2002 - 2004
Vice President (Acting), Korea University, 2002 - 2003
Honorary Professor, Univ. of Jilin, Changchun, China, 2005 - present

ACADEMIC SOCIETIES

IUPAC (President of Polymer Div., 2006-present), Korea Academy of Sci. & Tech. (Fellow and Chairman, Natural Sci. Div.), Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies(Vice President, 2002-2005), RSC (UK, Fellow), NY Acad. Sci. (Member), Asia-Pacific Acad. Materials (Member), Korean Chemical Soc. (President, 2000), Polymer Society of Korea (President, 1997), Korea Synchrotron Radiation Users' Association (President, 2004-2005), Korea Association of Directors of Center of Excellence (President, 2003), Korean Institute of Science and Technology Studies (President, 2004-2005, Vice President, 2000-2003)

EDITORIAL BOARD

Macromolecules (U.S.A.), Polymer (Jap.), Polymer-Plastics Tech. & Engr. (Dekker, U.S.A.), Korea Polym. J., Bull. Korean Chem. Soc., Polymer International (Wiley)

AWARDS

Korea University Award, President of Korea University, June 25, 1986.
Polymer Society of Korea Award, President of Polymer Society of Korea, April 15, 1988.
Korea Science Award, President of Korea, Nov. 20, 1991.
King Saejong Memorial Award, President of Korea, Oct. 9, 1998.
Seoul Citizen's Prize, Seoul City Mayor, Oct. 20, 2003.v International Polymer Award, President of the Society of Polymer Sci., Japan, May. 26, 2004.
Paul J. Flory Polymer Research Prize, P.J.F. Prize Committee, July 8, 2005.
Sudang Award, Sudang Foundation, May 10, 2006.

RESEARCH INTEREST

Liquid Crystals; Conducting, NLO, PL and EL Polymers; Nanostructured Polyconjugated Polymers; Magnetic Polymers; DNA Science - About 370 papers published