Yousung Jung

Prof. Yousung Jung

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering,

Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea

Yousung Jung is a Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Seoul National Univeristy. He received the Ph.D. in Theoretical Chemistry from University of California, Berkeley (with Martin Head-Gordon). After a postdoctoral work at Caltech (with Rudy Marcus), he joined the faculty at KAIST in 2009. He then moved to SNU in early 2023. His research interests involve computational chemistry and machine learning to understand and design novel molecules and materials with desired properties, as well as predict their synthesis. He is the recipient of Shin Kook Joe Academic Award (2023, Korean Chemical Society), Hanseong Science Award (2021, Hanseong Son Jae Han Scholarship Foundation), Pole Medal (2018, Asia-Pacific Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists), Korean Chemical Society Young Physical Chemist Award (2017), Chemical Society of Japan Distinguished Lectureship Award (2015), and KCS-Wiley Young Chemist Award (2013).