Professor

Date of Birth:	1992. 8. 17.
Nationality:	Republic of Korea
Gender:	Male
Address:	203, Semiconductor Physics and Research Center, Jeonbuk National University, Korea
Tel.	+82-063-270-3441
E-mail:	whbaek@jbnu.ac.kr

 

 

EDUCATION  

 

2015.3 – 2021.8  Ph.D. Chemical and Biological Engineering
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Thesis Title: Structure Characterization and Assembly of CdSe-based Nanoclusters

Thesis Advisor: Taeghwan Hyeon  

2011.3 – 2015.2  B.S. Chemical and Biological Engineering
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Graduated with Summa cum laude (Department Topper)

RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 

 

2025.10– present General Manager Professor,
International Cooperation Office, Global - Learning & Academic research institution for Master’s·PhD students, and Postdocs (LAMP) Program of the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Ministry of Education (No. RS-2024-00443714),
Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, Korea

 

2025.3 – present  General Manager Professor,
International Cooperation Office, BK21 Center for Education and Research Center for Semiconductor and Chemical Engineering, School of Semiconductor and Chemical Engineering, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju 54896, Korea

 

2024.9 – present  Assistant Professor,
Department of Semiconductor Science & Technology,
Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, Korea

 

2022.7 – 2024.8  Research Representative of Samsung Research Cluster funded by SAIT, Suwon, Korea. (Moungi G. Bawendi (MIT), Dmitri V. Talapin (Univ. of Chicago), Edward H. Sargent (Northwestern Univ) also participate in Samsung Research Cluster)

 

2022.7 – 2024.8  Postdoctoral Researcher,
James Franck Institute, Gordon Center for Integrative Science, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, U.S.

 

2021.9 – 2022.6  Postdoctoral Researcher,
Center for Nanoparticle Research, Institute for Basic Science (IBS),
School of Chemical and Biological Engineering,
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

 

 

RECENT AWARDS AND HONORS

 

2025.11.              Invited speaker in 2025 Materials Research Society of Korea Fall Conference, St. John’s Hotel, Gangneung, Korea

2025.06.              Invited speaker in 2025 KSIEC Spring Meeting and International Conference, International Convention Center Jeju, Jeju, Korea

2023.7.27.          Organizing conference ‘Nanotalks’ as a co-organizer with Prof. Dmitri. V. Talapin and Prof. Philippe Guyot-Sionnest

2021.3.10.          “Interview on Developing New Avenue of Carbon Capture and Utilization Using Semiconductor Nanoclusters”, Good-morning Nano, Web-zine NOW, National Nanotechnology Policy Center, Korea

2021.2.9.            Samsung Electronics’ 27^th Humantech Paper Award, Bronze Award,
Samsung Electronics, Korea

2021.1.19.          MBC News, National Broadcast in Korea, “IBS, Success in CO₂ conversion to Useful Materials with Atomic Semiconductor Composites”

2016.3 – 2017.2  Merit-based Scholarship, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

2011.3 – 2015.2  The National Scholarship for Science and Engineering,
Korea Student Aid Foundation, Korea

 

 

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

 

  [1]  Woonhyuk Baek et al., “Highly luminescent and catalytically active suprastructures of magic-sized semiconductor nanoclusters”
Nat. Mater. 2021, 20, 650–657.

 

[2]  Megalamane S. Bootharaju, Woonhyuk Baek, Guocheng Deng, Kamalpreet Singh, Oleksandr Voznyy, Nanfeng Zheng and Taeghwan Hyeon
“ Structure of a subnanometer-sized semiconductor Cd₁₄Se₁₃ cluster”
Chem. 2022, 8 (11), 2978-2989 (Equal contribution)