Dongho Chae

Background

Chae is the son of Yongki Chae and Shinmo Hong.

Education

Chae received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Seoul National University in 1981. Two years later he earned his Master of Science degree in Physics from the same university. In 1986, Dongho was given a Master of Arts degree in Mathematics from Syracuse University. Also in 1989, he received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Applied Mathematics from Princeton University.

Career

Chae began his career as a postdoctoral fellow at Indiana University Bloomington in 1989. A year later he took a position of a research assistant professor at Brown University. In 1991, Dongho became an assistant professor at Pohang University of Science and Technology. He served as a professor at Seoul National University from 1994 to 2004.

In 2004, Chae was appointed a professor at Sungkyunkwan University. Since 2011 he has been a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Chung-Ang University.

Achievements

• Chae is known for his publications, including "On the vanishing theorems for the discretely self-similar solutions to the Hall equations", "Unique continuation type theorem for the self-similar Euler equations", "Remarks on the Liouville type problem in the stationary 3D Navier-Stokes equations" and others.

Membership

Chae is a member of Korean Academy of Sciences and Technology.

Connections

On July 17, 1984 Dongho Chae married Eunhee Nam. They have two children.

Father:

Yongki Chae

Mother:

Shinmo Hong

Spouse:

Eunhee Nam

child:

Suyoung Chae

child:

Jooyoung Chae