Seogjoo Jang

Background

Jang, Seogjoo Son of Chulsoo Jang and Minja Cho.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea, 1989. Master of Science, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea, 1993. Doctor of Philosophy, University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1999.

Career

Postdoctoral associate Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1999—2002. Goldhaber distinguished fellow Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, 2003—2005. Assistant professor Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, 2005—2009, associate professor, since 2010.

Achievements

• Achievements include development of a theory of resonance energy transfer with significant quantum coherence. Development of a theory of resonance energy transfer between macromolecules consisting of multiple chromophores. Research in elucidation of fast resonance energy transfer mechanism between light harvesting complexes of a photosynthetic purple bacteria.
  
  Research in formulation of path integral quantum dynamics applicable to condensed phase quantum dynamical systems.

Works

• Other Work

  • Author.

Membership

Member of American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physics Society, American Chemical Society (chair, topical group computers chemistry since 2008), Sigma Xi.

Connections

Married Hyangsook Choe, December 20, 1996. Children: Philip Joonkyoung, Sophia Seokyoung.

Father:

Chulsoo Jang

Mother:

Minja Cho

Spouse:

Hyangsook Choe

child:

Philip Joonkyoung Jang

child:

Sophia Seokyoung Jang