Nationality South Korean Doctoral advisor Marvin L. Cohen Residence Seoul, South Korea | Name Ihm Jisoon | |
Fields Solid-State Physics Theory Institutions Seoul National University Known for Computational materials physics Notable awards Korea Science Award by President of Korea (1996)
Cheong-Am Award by Cheong-Am Foundation (2007)
Korea Scientist of Highest Honor (2007) | ||
Alma mater United States of America | ||
Ihm Jisoon is a South Korean physicist and Professor in the School of Physics at Seoul National University in Seoul, South Korea.
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He has been a Fellow of the American Physical Society since 2007, and a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA since 2011. He has been a Distinguished Professor at Seoul National University since 2009. He has carried out research in the development of a novel computational formulation for calculating the total energy of solids based on quantum mechanics. His first paper published in 1979 spawned a new area in condensed matter physics, namely, “computational materials physics,” and the paper is nowadays regarded as classic in the field. He also published an invited review article on this subject as a single author in Reports on Progress in Physics in 1988. An international society on this field of research was formed around 1990, and its 16th annual meeting was held in Trieste, Italy, in January 2013. He has been a member of the Scientific Committee for this series of meetings. A similar society was formed in Asia in 1998 and he has played a key role in its birth and continued growth. He was Director of the Center for Theoretical Physics at SNU during the period 2006–2010. He is now engaged in improving the formalism of computational materials physics and its applications to many different material systems such as carbon nanotubes, graphene, topological insulators, and energy storage materials.