Chan-Ho Yang, Ph. D. (biography)
KAIST Professor

Department of Physics
Natural Science Building (E6-2), Room #5306
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
E-mail : chyang@kaist.ac.kr / Phone (Office) : +82-42-350-2513

Education and Employment
Head, Department of Physics, KAIST (2022.3 ~ present)
Head, Graduate School of Nanoscience and technology, KAIST (2022.3 ~ present)
Director, Creative Research Initiative Center for Lattice Defectronics (2017. 6 ~ present)
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, KAIST Physics (2010. 1 ~ present)
Post-doc : University of California at Berkeley (2006. 7 ~ 2009. 12)
Post-doc : POSTECH, electron Spin Science Center (2005. 8 ~ 2006. 6)
Ph. D. : POSTECH, Physics (2005)
M. Sc. : POSTECH, Physics (2000)
B. S. : POSTECH, Physics (1998)

Research Interests
Growth and characterization of transition metal oxide thin films
Strongly correlated phenomena in thin films
Magnetism and orbital physics
Ferroelectrics and multiferroics
Lattice defectronics
Topological structures in ferrous materials

Honors and Awards
2020 Outstanding Lecture Award (College of Natural Science, KAIST)
2018 Presidential Citation on Science Day (Republic of Korea)
2018 Outstanding Lecture Award (College of Natural Science, KAIST)
2017 KAIST Endowed Chair Professor (KAIST)
2017 Academic Award (KAIST)
2016 Outstanding Lecture Award (College of Natural Science, KAIST)
2016 KAIST’s Top 10 Research Accomplishments of 2015 (KAIST)
2014 Outstanding Lecture Award (College of Natural Science, KAIST)
2011 Outstanding Lecture Award (College of Natural Science, KAIST)
2010 EWon Assistant Professorship for Outstanding Junior Faculty (KAIST)
2010 TJ Park Science Fellow for Junior Faculty (POSCO Foundation)
1998 Chang-Rim Prize for Excellence in Graduate Studies