IBS Centers are research centers operated by the Institute for Basic Science. There are 31 institutes as of August 2020. [1] Centers are organized into six disciplines according to their research area: [2]
As of August 2020, the following HQ, campus, and extramural IBS Centers exist (in alphabetical order): [1]
Name | Director | City, university | Research area |
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Center for Artificial Low Dimensional Electronic Systems | Yeom Han-woong | Pohang, POSTECH | Physics |
Center for Axion and Precision Physics Research | Yannis K. Semertzidis | Daejeon, HQ | Physics |
Center for Catalytic Hydrocarbon Functionalizations | Chang Sukbok | Daejeon, KAIST | Chemistry |
Center for Climate Physics | Axel Timmermann | Busan, Pusan National University | Earth science |
Center for Cognition and Sociality | Changjoon Justin Lee | Daejeon, HQ | Life sciences |
Center for Complex Geometry | Hwang Jun-Muk | Daejeon, HQ | Mathematics |
Center for Correlated Electron Systems | Noh Tae-won | Seoul, Seoul National University | Physics |
Center for Exotic Nuclear Studies | Kevin Insik Hahn | Daejeon, HQ | Physics |
Center for Genome Engineering | Kim Jin-Soo | Seoul, Seoul National University | Interdisciplinary |
Center for Genomic Integrity | Myung Kyungjae | Ulsan, UNIST | Life sciences |
Center for Geometry and Physics | Oh Yong-Geun | Pohang, POSTECH | Mathematics |
Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics | Lee Young Hee | Suwon, Sungkyunkwan University | Physics |
Center for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics | Cho Minhaeng | Seoul, Korea University | Chemistry |
Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials | Rodney S. Ruoff | Ulsan, UNIST | Chemistry |
Center for Nanomaterials and Chemical Reactions | Ryoo Ryong | Daejeon, KAIST | Chemistry |
Center for Nanomedicine | Cheon Jinwoo | Seoul, Yonsei University | Interdisciplinary |
Center for Nanoparticle Research | Hyeon Taeghwan | Seoul, Seoul National University | Chemistry |
Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research | Kim Seong-gi | Suwon, Sungkyunkwan University | Interdisciplinary |
Center for Plant Aging Research | Nam Hong Gil | Daegu, DGIST | Life sciences |
Center for Quantum Nanoscience | Andreas J. Heinrich | Seoul, Ewha Womans University | Physics |
Center for Relativistic Laser Science | Nam Chang-hee | Gwangju, GIST | Physics |
Center for RNA Research | Kim V. Narry | Seoul, Seoul National University | Life sciences |
Center for Self-assembly and Complexity | Kim Kimoon | Pohang, POSTECH | Chemistry |
Center for Soft and Living Matter | Steve Granick | Ulsan, UNIST | Interdisciplinary |
Center for Synaptic Brain Dysfunctions | Kim EunJoon | Daejeon, KAIST | Life sciences |
Center for Theoretical Physics of Complex Systems | Sergej Flach | Daejeon, HQ | Physics |
Center for Theoretical Physics of the Universe | Choi Kiwoon | Daejeon, HQ | Physics |
Center for Underground Physics | Kim Yeongduk ( ko ) | Daejeon, HQ | Physics |
Center for Vascular Research | Koh Gou Young | Daejeon, KAIST | Life sciences |
Pioneer Research Centers (PRC) are headquarters-based centers headed not by a director, but by a group of up to five chief investigators. As of October 2019, the following IBS pioneer research centers exist (in alphabetical order): [3]
Name | Group | Chief investigator | Research area |
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PRC for Biomolecular and Cellular Structure | Data Science Research Group | Kim Ho Min | Interdisciplinary |
PRC for Mathematical and Computational Sciences | Data Science Group | Cha Meeyoung | Mathematics |
Discrete Mathematics Group | Oum Sang-il | Mathematics | |
Biomedical Mathematics Group | Kim Jae Kyoung | Mathematics | |
Name | Director | City, University | Research area | Closure date |
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Academy of Immunology and Microbiology | Charles Surh | Pohang, POSTECH | Life sciences | October 2019 |
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, simply referred to as UNIST, is one of the four public universities in South Korea which are dedicated to research in science and technology, along with KAIST, GIST, and DGIST. UNIST was founded in 2007 in response to growing demand for higher education in the Korean industrial capital of Ulsan, where world-renowned automotive, shipbuilding, petrochemical, and secondary cells industries are clustered. At the time of its foundation, UNIST was known for being the first national university in South Korea to be incorporated and thus administered by an independent board of trustees despite being funded by the central government.
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.
Hee-sup Shin is a South Korean neuroscientist whose work focuses on brain research of genetically engineered mice via gene knockout in order to better understand the human brain. His research resulted in him being named a National Scientist by the Korean Ministry of Science and Technology. He is co-director of the Center for Cognition and Sociality leading the Social Neuroscience Group in the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) located at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).
Lee Young-hee is a South Korean physicist. He is currently 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, 2019, and 2020.
The Institute for Basic Science is a Korean government-funded research institute that conducts basic science research and relevant pure basic research. IBS was established in November 2011 by the Lee Myung-bak administration as a research institute, later be a core of the International Science and Business Belt (ISBB) upon relocation of their headquarters from a rented property to their own campus in January 2018 using land reclaimed from the Taejŏn Expo '93 in Expo Science Park. Comprising 30 research centers with 68 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 outside of 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.
Koh Gou Young is a researcher from South Korea studying organ vasculature and lymphatic vessels with an interest in angiogenesis, lymphangiogenesis, adipogenesis, and cardiogenesis. His research has contributed to the publication of more than 200 journal articles, including multiple publications on how Tie2 deficits are related to sepsis, blood-retinal barrier damage, and an imbalance of intraocular pressure in Schlemm's canal which induces glaucoma.
Andreas J. Heinrich is a physicist working with scanning tunneling microscope, 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. He was also principal investigator of the stop-motion animated short film A Boy and His Atom filmed by moving thousands of individual atoms. He serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research and is a fellow of the American Physical Society.
The Center for Quantum Nanoscience was founded in 2017 as part of efforts for South Korea to expand basic science research. Classified as an Extramural Center of the Institute for Basic Science, it is hosted by Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea. Their research focuses on exploring quantum properties of atoms and molecules on surfaces and interfaces and long-term goals of quantum sensing and quantum computation in those areas.
Sukbok Chang is a South Korean organic chemist. He is a distinguished professor in the Department of Chemistry at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He is also the director of the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) Center for Catalytic Hydrocarbon Functionalizations (CCHF). He was an associate editor on ACS Catalysis and has served on the editorial advisory boards of The Journal of Organic Chemistry, Journal of the American Chemical Society, and Accounts of Chemical Research. His major research interest is transition metal catalyzed C-H bond functionalization for the carbon-carbon bond and carbon-heteroatom bond formation.
Noh Do Young is a South Korean physicist specializing in condensed matter physics and materials science using synchrotrons and XFELs. He has developed and applied various frontier X-ray diffraction methods to study condensed matter systems, including recent coherent X-ray diffraction imaging technique. His research has utilized a number of synchrotron radiation facilities, such as Advanced Photon Source, SPring-8, National Synchrotron Light Source, PLS, and X-ray free electron lasers, including SCALA and PAL-XFEL.
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. She has served on the editorial boards of the journals PeerJ and ACM Transactions on Social Computing.
Choi Kiwoon is a theoretical particle physicist researching focusing on particle theory and cosmology. He was a research professor at Chonbuk National University and a full professor at KAIST. He is the founding director of the Institute for Basic Science Center for Theoretical Physics of the Universe. He is a member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology.
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.
Charles D. Surh was a leading scientist in the field of immunology. He was a professor at both The Scripps Research Institute and Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), director of the Academy of Immunology and Microbiology in Pohang, and associate editor of the journal Pleura and Peritoneum. He died from cancer in 2017.
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.
Oum Sang-il is a Korean mathematician working in graph theory and discrete mathematics. He is a tenured professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at KAIST and the chief investigator of the Discrete Mathematics Group in the Pioneer Research Center for Mathematical and Computational Sciences at the Institute for Basic Science. He is known for his work on structural graph theory and in particular for structures and algorithms relating to rank-width, clique-width, and branch-width. He published more than 45 journal papers.
Christopher William Bielawski is a distinguished professor at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology and group leader of the Synthesis Group in the Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials. His research in synthesis and polymer chemistry has resulted in more than 290 publications and multiple patents.
...29 research centers as of October 2019.