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Professor

Yoonsoo Pang, Ph. D.

Professor, Department of Chemistry
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
324 Dasan Bldg.
123 Cheomdangwagi-ro, Buk-gu
Gwangju 61005, Republic of Korea
Tel: +82-62-715-2871
Fax: +82-62-715-2866
E-mail: ypang@gist.ac.kr

EDUCATION

Ph. D. in Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2007, Advisor: Dr. Dana D. Dlott)
M. S. in Chemistry, Seoul National University (1998, Advisor: Dr. Myung Soo Kim)
B. S. in Chemistry, Seoul National University (1996)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Full/Associate/Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry (2013-present)
Topic Editor, Molecules (2021-)
Visiting Scholar, Seoul National University (2021-2022)
Director of Chemistry Concentration, GIST College & Vice Chair, Department of Chemistry (2019-2021)
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Photon Science, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (2011-2013)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory (2010-2011, Advisor: Dr. David M. Tiede)
Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley (2007-2010, Advisor: Dr. Graham R. Fleming)
Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, Korea Military Academy (1998-2001)

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

“Homogeneous Silver Colloidal Substrates Optimal for Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence”, Daedu Lee, Jaebeom Lee, Junghyun Song, Myungsam Jen, and Yoonsoo Pang, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys." 21, 11599-11607 (2019). *back cover
“Surface State-mediated Charge Transfer of Cs₂SnI₆ and Its Application in Dye-sensitized Solar Cells”, HyeonOh Shin, Byung-Man Kim, Taehyung Jang, Kwang-Min Kim, Deok-Ho Roh, Jung Seung Nam, Jeong Soo Kim, Un-Young Kim, Byunghong Lee, Yoonsoo Pang* and Tae-Hyuk Kwon*, Adv. Energy Mater. 9, 1803243 (2019).
“Ultrafast Intramolecular Proton Transfer of Alizarin Investigated by Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy”, Myungsam Jen, Sebok Lee, Kooknam Jeon, Shafqat Hussain, and Yoonsoo Pang, J. Phys. Chem. B 121, 4129-4136 (2017).
“Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence: Wavelength-Dependent Ultrafast Energy Transfer”, Jaebeom Lee, Sebok Lee, Myungsam Jen, and Yoonsoo Pang, J. Phys. Chem. C 119, 23285-23291 (2015).
“Unusual Relaxation Pathway from the Two-Photon Excited First Singlet State of Carotenoids”, Yoonsoo Pang, Garth A. Jones, Matthew A. Prantil and Graham R. Fleming, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 132, 2264-2273 (2010).
[Feature Article, Cover] “Hydrogen-Bond Disruption by Vibrational Excitations in Water”, Zhaohui Wang, Yoonsoo Pang and Dana D. Dlott, J. Phys. Chem. A 111, 3196-3208 (2007).
“Vibrational Energy Transfer Across a Reverse Micelle Surfactant Layer”, John C. Deàk*, Yoonsoo Pang*, Timothy D. Sechler, Zhaohui Wang and Dana D. Dlott, Science 306, 473-476 (2004). (*equal contribution)

AWARDS

College Teaching Award, GIST (2023)
The Distinguished Lectureship Award, The Chemical Society of Japan (2013)
Merck Analytical/Physical Chemistry Fellowship, Merck & Co. Inc. (2005-2006)
Student/Postdoctoral/Young Investigator Award, NIST (2005)
Pre-doctoral Fellow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2002-2004)
Development Fund Scholarship, Seoul National University (1998)