Chemical Engineering and Material Science Professor Youngmin Yoo Is Selected for the Rising Ewha Fellowship
- Date2020.04.29
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Chemical engineering and material science professor Youngmin Yoo at the ELTEC College of Engineering was selected for the 2020 Rising Ewha Fellowship. Rising Ewha Fellowship awards grant for 3 years, encouraging research and other academic activities. Assistant or associate professors who have at least 5 years of tenure at Ewha are eligible and professors with outstanding research results who have published several international A-ranking (humanities and social science) or international special A-ranking (natural science) papers in the last 5 years are given the grant.
After being appointed professor in 2015, professor Yoo has led the molecular photoelectron lab, researching the interaction between electron and light in molecules. He received Excellent English Course Award at Ewha in 2017 and Chemical Society of Japan Award in 2018 along with being elected as the Professor With the Highest Research Performance.
Recently he is carrying out research with major Korean electronics companies including Samsung Electronics, Samsung Display and LG Display, investigating material degradation mechanism in order to improve the life of Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED). He is also conducting various research projects such as circular light-emitting molecule synthesis applicable to 3D display like VR equipment, photo catalysis materialization for drug synthesis and molecular imaging probe development for photodynamic treatment and cancer diagnosis.
Professor Yoo expressed his gratitude for the Rising Ewha Fellowship and said that he will work even harder at Ewha Womans University to produce expert groups who can lead the molecular electronics research.