Hongkun Park (; born 1967 in Seoul) is Mark Hyman Jr. Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics at

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

. He received his BS in chemistry at

Seoul National University Seoul National University (SNU; ) is a public university, public research university in Seoul, South Korea. It is one of the SKY (universities), SKY universities and a part of the Flagship Korean National Universities. The university's main c ...

in 1990, and his PhD in physical chemistry at

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

in 1996 under

Richard Zare Richard Neil Zare (born November 19, 1939, in Cleveland, Ohio) is the Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science and a Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University. Throughout his career, Zare has made a considerable impact in physica ...

. From 1996 to 1999 he was a postdoctoral fellow at

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL, Berkeley Lab) is a Federally funded research and development centers, federally funded research and development center in the Berkeley Hills, hills of Berkeley, California, United States. Established i ...

under A. Paul Alivisatos and Paul McEuen. His current research focuses on

optoelectronics Optoelectronics (or optronics) is the study and application of electronic devices and systems that find, detect and control light, usually considered a sub-field of photonics. In this context, ''light'' often includes invisible forms of radi ...

and

plasmonics Plasmonics or nanoplasmonics refers to the generation, detection, and manipulation of signals at optical frequencies along metal-dielectric interfaces in the nanometer scale. Inspired by photonics, plasmonics follows the trend of miniaturizing op ...

using

nanostructures A nanostructure is a structure of intermediate size between microscopic and molecular structure A structure is an arrangement and organization of interrelated elements in a material object or system, or the object or system so organized. Ma ...

, nano-bio interfacing, and neuro-electronic devices.

Academic and professional awards

*2016 DoD Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship *2011 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science *2008

National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award is a research initiative first announced in 2004 designed to support individual scientists' biomedical research. The focus is specifically on "pioneering" research that is highly innovative ...

*2003 Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award *2003

Ho-Am Prize in Science The Ho-Am Prize in Science was established in 1990 by Kun-Hee Lee, the Chairman of Samsung, to honour the late Chairman, Lee Byung-chul, the founder of the company. The Ho-Am Prize in Science (previously the Ho-Am Prize in Science & Technology) ...

*2003 Visiting Miller Research Professorship, The Adolph C. and Mary Sprague

Miller Institute The Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science was established on the University of California, Berkeley, campus in 1955 after Adolph C. Miller and his wife, Mary Sprague Miller, made a donation to the university. It was their wish that the d ...

for Basic Research in Science,

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*2002 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship *2001

David and Lucile Packard Foundation The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is a private foundation that provides grants to not-for-profit organizations. It was created in 1964 by David Packard (co-founder of HP) and his wife Lucile Salter Packard. Following David Packard's dea ...

Fellowship for Science and Engineering *2001

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CAREER Award *1999 Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award *1999 Research Innovation Award from the Research Corporation

Representative publications

*"Nanomechanical oscillations in a single-C60 transistor", H. Park, J. Park, A. K. L. Lim, E. H. Anderson, A. P. A livisatos, and P. L. McEuen, Nature 407, 57–60 (2000) *"Fabry-Perot interference in a nanotube electron waveguide", W. Liang, M. Bockrath, D. Bozovic, J. H. Hafner, M. Tinkham, and H. Park, Nature 411, 665–669 (2001) *"Nanowire nanosensors for highly sensitive and selective detection of biological and chemical species", Y. Cui, Q. Wei, H. Park, and C. M. Lieber, Science 293, 1289–1292 (2001) *"Resonant electron scattering by defects in single-walled carbon nanotubes", M. Bockrath, W. Liang, D. Bozovic, J. H. Hafner, C. M. Lieber, M. Tinkham, and H. Park, Science 291, 283–285 (2001) *"Kondo resonance in a single-molecule transistor", W. Liang, M. P. Shores, M. Bockrath, J. R. Long, and H. Park, Nature 417, 725–729 (2002) *"Single-walled carbon nanotube electronics", P. L. McEuen, M. Fuhrer, and H. Park, IEEE Trans. Nanotech. 1, 78–85 (2002) *"Shell filling and exchange coupling in metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes", W. Liang, M. Bockrath, and H. Park, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 126801 (2002) *"Synthesis of single-crystalline perovskite nanowires composed of barium titanate and strontium titanate", J. J. Urban, W. S. Yun, Q. Gu, and H. Park, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124, 1186–1187 (2002) *"Ferroelectric phase transitions in individual single-crystalline BaTiO3 nanowrires", J. E. Spanier, A. M. Kolpak, J. J. Urban, I. Grinberg, W. S. Yun, L. Ouyang, A. M. Rappe and H. Park, Nano Lett. 6, 735 – 739 (2006) *"Generation of single optical plasmons in metallic nanowires coupled to quantum dots", A. V. Akimov, A. Mukherjee, C. L. Yu, D. E. Chang, A. S. Zibrov, P. R. Hemmer, H. Park and M. D. Lukin, Nature 450, 402–406 (2007) *"Near field electrical detection of optical plasmons and single plasmon sources", A. L. Falk, F. H. L. Koppens, C. Yu, K. Kang, N. P. de Leon Snapp, A. V. Akimov, M-H. Jo, M. D. Lukin, H. Park, Nature Phys. 5, 475–479 (2009) *"Vertical silicon nanowires as a universal platform for delivering biomolecules into living cells", A. Shalek, J. T. Robinson, E. S. Karp, J. S. Lee, D-R. Ahn, M-H. Yoon, A. Sutton, M. Jorgolli, R. S. Gertner, T. S. Gujral, G. MacBeath, E. G. Yang, H. Park, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 107, 1870–1875 (2010) *"Vertical nanowire electrode arrays as a scalable platform for intracellular interfacing to neuronal circuits", J. T. Robinson, M. Jorgolli, A. K. Shalek, M.-H. Yoon, R. S. Gertner, H. Park, Nature Nanotech. 7, 180–184 (2012) *"Single-cell transcriptomics reveals bimodality in expression and splicing in immune cells," A. K. Shalek, R. Satija, X. Adiconis, R. S. Gertner, J. T. Gaublomme, R. Raychowdhury, S. Schwartz, N. Yosef, C. Malboeuf, A. Gnirke, A. Goren, N. Hacohen, J. Z. Levin, H. Park, A. Regev Nature 498, 236-240 (2013) *"Dynamic regulatory network controlling Th17 cell differentiation", N. Yosef, A. K. Shalek, J. T. Gaublomme, H. Jin, Y. Lee, A Awasthi, C. Wu, K. Karwacz, S. Xiao, M. Jorgolli, D. Gennert, R. Satija, A. Shakya, D. Y. Lu, J. T. Trombetta, M. Pillai, P. J. Ratcliffe, M. L. Coleman, M. Bix, D. Tantin, H. Park, V. K. Kuchroo, A. Regev, Nature 496, 461-468 (2013) *"Nanometer-scale thermometry in a living cell," G. Kucsko, P. C. Maurer, N. Y. Yao, M. Kubo, H. J. Noh, P. K. Lo, H. Park, M. D. Lukin Nature 500, 54-59 (2013) *"Magnetic resonance detection of individual proton spins using quantum reporters," A. O. Sushkov, I. Lovchinsky, N. Chisholm, R. L. Walsworth, H. Park, M. D. Lukin Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 197601 (2014) *"Visible-frequency hyperbolic metasurface," A. A. High, R. C. Devlin, A. Dibos, M. Polking, D. S. Wild, J. Perczel, N. P. de Leon, M. D. Lukin, H. Park Nature 522, 192-196 (2015) *"Single-cell genomics unveils critical regulators of Th17 cell pathogenicity," J. T. Gaublomme, N. Yosef, Y. Lee, R. S. Gertner, L. V. Yang, P. P. Pandolfi, T. Mak, R. Satija, A. K. Shalek, V. K. Kuchroo, H. Park, A. Regev Cell 163, 1400-1412 (2015) *"Magnetic resonance spectroscopy of an atomically thin material using a single-spin qubit," I. Lovchinsky, J. D. Sanchez-Yamagishi, E. Urbach, S. Choi, S. Fang, T. Andersen, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, A. Bylinskii, E. Kaxiras, P. Kim, H. Park, M. D. Lukin Science 355, 503-507 (2017) *"CMOS nanoelectrode array for all-electrical intracellular electrophysiological imaging," J. Abbott, T. Ye, L. Qin, M. Jorgolli, R. S. Gertner, D. Ham, H. Park Nature Nanotech. 12, 460-466 (2017) *"Probing dark excitons in atomically thin semiconductors via near-field coupling to surface plasmon polaritons," Y. Zhou, G. Scuri, D. Wild, A. High, A. Dibos, L. Jauregui, C. Shu, K. de Greve, K. Pistunova, A. Joe, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, P. Kim, M. D. Lukin, H. Park Nature Nanotech. 12, 856-860 (2017)

External links

Park Lab Homepage at Harvard University

Article discussing Park's neurobiology work

Hongkun Park named a 2008 NIH Director's Pioneer Award recipient
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