Biography

Hyoung Joon Choi received his B.S. (1992), M.S. (1994), and Ph.D. (2000) in Physics from Seoul National University in Korea. He was a Miller Research Fellow at University of California, Berkeley, USA (2000-2003) and a Professor of School of Computational Sciences, Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS) in Seoul, Korea (2003-2005). In 2005, he joined the faculty of the Department of Physics, Yonsei University. He served as Director of the Center for Computational Studies of Advanced Electronic Material Properties, Yonsei University (2011-2020) and Associate Dean of College of Science, Yonsei  University (2022-2024). In the Korean Physical Society (KPS), he has been a Fellow of KPS since 2011 and he served as Chair of the AAPPS Relations Committee (2017-2022) and Editor of the Journal of the Korean Physical Society (2018-2021). In the Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies (AAPPS), he served as Treasurer (2014-2019), Council Member (2014-present),  Vice President (2020-2022), and President (2023-present). He also served as Main Organizer of the 1st and 2nd KIAS Workshop on Electronic Structure Calculations (2004, 2005), Chair of the Organizing Committee of the 17th Asian Workshop on First-Principles Electronic Structure Calculations (2014), Chair of the Organizing Committee of the APCTP-KIAS Quantum Materials Symposium (2019), Chair of International Program Committee of the 14th Asia Pacific Physics Conference (APPC14) in 2019, and the Deputy Chair of the International Organizing Committee and Chair of the International Program Committee of the 15th Asia Pacific Physics Conference (APPC15) in 2022. His research area is computational condensed matter physics focused on nanostructures, two-dimensional materials, magnetic materials, and superconducting materials.