Mechanosynthesis is a term for hypothetical chemical syntheses in which reaction outcomes are determined by the use of mechanical constraints to direct reactive molecules to specific molecular sites. There are presently no non-biological chemical syntheses which achieve this aim. Some atomic placement has been achieved with scanning tunnelling microscopes.
Henry Frederick "Fritz" Schaefer III is an American computational,physical,and theoretical chemist. He is one of the most highly cited chemists in the world,with a Thomson Reuters h-index of 121 as of 2020.
Taeghwan Hyeon is a South Korean chemist. He is SNU distinguished professor in the School of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Seoul National University,director of Center for Nanoparticle Research of Institute for Basic Science (IBS),and an associate editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
V. Narry Kim is a South Korean biochemist and microbiologist,best known for her work on microRNA biogenesis. Her pioneering studies have laid the groundwork for the biology of microRNA and contributed to the improvement of RNA interference technologies.
Donald M. Eigler is an American physicist associated with the IBM Almaden Research Center,who is noted for his achievements in nanotechnology.
Noh Tae-won is a South Korean physicist and director of the Center for Correlated Electron Systems (CCES) in the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) at Seoul National University (SNU). He has published more 400 papers and been cited 15,000 times. He is a member of the Materials Research Society,Korean Optical Society,Korean Crystallographic Society,and Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies and been on several editorial boards for journals. In 2017,he became president of the Korean Dielectrics Society. In 2024,he became the 9th president of the Korea Institute for Advanced Study.
Yeom Han-woong is a South Korean physicist. A tenured professor at POSTECH,he has led several research centers for the university and from 2013 in collaboration with the Institute for Basic Science. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and has served as vice chairman of the Korean government's first science and technology advisory group for three consecutive terms. With more than 300 publications to his name,his research has been cited over 5,000 times giving him an h-index of 40 and i10-index of 125.
James R. Chelikowsky is a professor of physics,chemical engineering,and chemistry at The University of Texas at Austin. He is the director of the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences' Center for Computational Materials. He holds the W.A. "Tex" Moncrief Jr. Chair of Computational Materials.
Lee Young-hee is a South Korean physicist. He is a distinguished professor in physics and energy science at Sungkyunkwan University as a SKKU fellow. He is also director of the Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics in the Institute for Basic Science (IBS). He has been a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher in the cross-field category in 2018–2023.
The Institute for Basic Science is a Korean government-funded research institute that conducts basic science research and relevant pure basic research. Comprising approximately 30 research centers with more than 60 research groups across the nation and a headquarters in Daejeon,IBS has approximately 1,800 researchers and doctoral course students. Around 30% of the researchers are from countries other than South Korea. The organization is under the Ministry of Science and ICT.
Cho Minhaeng is a South Korean scientist in researching physical chemistry,spectroscopy,and microscopy. He was director of the National Creative Research Initiative Center for Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy and is founding director of the Center for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics in the Institute for Basic Science (IBS),located in Korea University.
Giulia Galli is a condensed-matter physicist. She is the Liew Family Professor of Electronic Structure and Simulations in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and the department of chemistry at the University of Chicago and senior scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. She is also the director of the Midwest Integrated Center for Computational Materials. She is recognized for her contributions to the fields of computational condensed-matter,materials science,and nanoscience,most notably first principles simulations of materials and liquids,in particular materials for energy,properties of water,and excited state phenomena.
Andreas J. Heinrich is a physicist working with scanning tunneling microscopy,quantum technology,nanoscience,spin excitation spectroscopy,and precise atom manipulation. He worked for IBM Research in Almaden for 18 years,during which time he developed nanosecond scanning tunneling microscopy which provided an improvement in time resolution of 100,000 times,and combined x-ray absorption spectroscopy with spin excitation spectroscopy. In 2015 his team combined STM with electron spin resonance,which enables single-atom measurements on spins with nano-electronvolt precision REF1,REF2. In 2022 his team demonstrated the extension of ESR-STM to individual molecules REF3. Heinrich was also principal investigator of the stop-motion animated short film A Boy and His Atom filmed by moving thousands of individual atoms. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the recipient of the Heinrich Rohrer Medal of the Japan Society of Vacuum and Surface Science.
Yannis K. Semertzidis is a physicist exploring axions as a dark matter candidate,precision physics in storage rings including muon g-2 and proton electric dipole moment (pEDM). The axion and the pEDM are intimately connected through the strong CP problem. Furthermore,if the pEDM is found to be non-zero,it can help resolve the matter anti-matter asymmetry mystery of our universe. During his research career,he held a number of positions in the Department of Physics in Brookhaven National Laboratory,including initiator and co-spokesperson of the Storage Ring Electric Dipole Moment Collaboration. He is the founding director of the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) Center for Axion and Precision Physics Research,is a professor in the Physics Department of KAIST,and a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Cha Meeyoung,sometimes known as Mia,is an associate professor at KAIST in the School of Computing and a chief investigator in the Pioneer Research Center for Mathematical and Computational Sciences at the Institute for Basic Science. Her research focuses on network and data science with an emphasis on modeling,analyzing complex information propagation processes,machine learning-based computational social science,and deep learning. In June 2024,she will become the scientific director of the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy. She has served on the editorial boards of the journals PeerJ and ACM Transactions on Social Computing.
Kuk Young is a South Korean physicist,former physics professor and vice-provost of research of Seoul National University,distinguished professor of Ewha Womans University,and chairman of the Samsung Science and Technology Foundation. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society,Korean Academy of Science and Technology,Institute of Physics,Korean Physical Society,and Korean Vacuum Society. He has performed editor roles for the journals Nanotechnology,ACS Nano,and Solid State Electronics and was the fourth president of Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST).
Kim Doochul is a South Korean theoretical physicist. He was head of the Department of Physics,director of the BK21 Physics Research Division,and professor emeritus at Seoul National University. He was also a fellow and chairperson in the Korean Academy of Science and Technology before becoming the fifth president of Korea Institute for Advanced Study and the second president of Institute for Basic Science. He was a standing trustee with the Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics and a board of Trustee member of the Korean Physical Society.
Kim Jin-Soo is a chemist,biologist,and entrepreneur. He was CEO and CSO,ToolGen,Inc.,is a professor in the Department of Chemistry of Seoul National University and director of the Center for Genome Engineering. His research team has developed and improved several types of programmable nucleases,specifically zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs),TAL effector nucleases (TALENs),and RNA-guided engineered nucleases (RGENs). In 2018,he was a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher in the cross-field category and in the biology and biochemistry category in 2019.
Kevin Insik Hahn is a South Korean physicist who is an expert in the fields of nuclear physics and nuclear astrophysics. Since December 2019,he has been the director of the Center for Exotic Nuclear Studies at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in South Korea. He also holds an endowed professorship in the Department of Science Education at Ewha Womans University,where he has worked since 1999. In his research,he has worked on accelerator-based as well as non-accelerator-based experiments. His current research activities involve a number of accelerators around the world,including the RI Beam Factory (RIBF) at RIKEN,Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory,and the soon-to-open Rare isotope Accelerator complex for ON-line experiment (RAON). During his tenure at Ewha Womans University,he promoted STEM/STEAM education by serving for multiple years as the director of the Advanced STEAM Teacher Education Center. He also wrote several physics textbooks for high school students and undergraduate students.
Stephan S. Roche is a theoretician studying quantum transport theory in condensed matter,spin transport physics and devices simulation. Roche is a ICREA Research Professor since 2009,and the head of "Theoretical &computational Nanoscience Group" at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.
