Junwoo Son

Junwoo Son is an Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Seoul National University (SNU). He received his BS in Materials Science and Engineering from Seoul National University (2005) and his PhD in Materials from the University of California, Santa Barbara (2011). Prior to joining SNU in 2024, he was an assistant and associate professor at POSTECH (2013 ~ 2024). He is also affiliated with the Research Institute of Advanced Materials, Inter-university Semiconductor Research Center and the Institute of Applied Physics at SNU. He serves as a Review Board member of the National Research Foundation of Korea and a committee member of the Korean Association for Industrial Technology Security.  

His research interests include 1) epitaxial thin film growth, and 2) understanding of the structure-property relationship of nanoscale oxide thin films and heterostructures, including strongly correlated materials, oxide semiconductors, and low-dimensional oxides, and 2) design of new functionality for electronic applications. Prof. Son has authored or co-authored more than 90 peer-reviewed publications, including Nature Materials, Nature Electronics, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials etc.