Three
new directors for Institute for Basic Science, South Korea December
18th,
2014
Dr.
Sergej Flach, Dr. Kyungjae Myung, and Dr. Minhaeng Cho selected to
head new research centers
The
Institute for Basic Science (IBS) has announced that Dr. Sergej
Flach, a professor from Massey University, New Zealand, Dr. Kyungjae
Myung, the senior investigator and section head with tenure from the
National Institutes of Health, USA, and Dr. Minhaeng Cho, a professor
from Korea University have been selected as research directors to
launch new IBS research centers.
Dr.
Sergej Flach is an international scholar in the field of theoretical
physics, specializing in condensed matter, quantum and classical
nonlinear physics at the nanoscale. He has demonstrated his strong
leadership abilities as the head of the Visitors Program at the Max
Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (MPI-PKS) from
1997 until 2012, which was a key contributing factor to advances made
in theoretical physics.
Dr.
Kyungjae Myung is a leading scientist in genomic integrity. He will
found the Center for Genomic Integrity at the UNIST campus, Ulsan,
Korea and will research genome stability and chemotherapeutic
application. In addition, his studies of DNA repair pathways are
expected to lead the development of therapeutics for many human
diseases including cancers.
Dr.
Minhaeng Cho is one of the most influential trailblazers in the
research field of coherent multidimensional optical and vibrational
spectroscopy. He was the director of the Center for Multi-dimensional
Spectroscopy at Korea University from 2000 until 2009. His research
center will unveil the structure and dynamic characterization of
complex systems with multiple techniques.
“Each
of these newly selected directors is an international pioneer in
challenging, creative research,” explains IBS President Doochul
Kim. “I anticipate their significant contributions to greatly
enhance the environment of basic research in Korea.”
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About
Institute for Basic Science (IBS) The IBS was founded in 2011 by
the government of the Republic of Korea. With the sole purpose of
driving forward the development of basic science in Korea, IBS will
be comprised of a total of 50 research centers in all fields of
basic science, including mathematics, physics, chemistry, life
science, earth science and interdisciplinary science. IBS has
launched 24 research centers as of December 2014. There is one
mathematics, eight physics, seven chemistry, seven life science, and
an interdisciplinary research centers each.
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