Professors

• · 2009 Ph.D. in Physics, University of California, Berkeley, USA
• · 2006 M.A. in Physics, University of California, Berkeley, USA
• · 2000 B.Sc. In Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

• · 2012-present Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
• · 2012 Postdoc. Researcher, BOSCH Research and Development Center, Cambridge, USA
• · 2010-2011 Postdoc. Researcher, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
• · 2010 Postdoc. Researcher, University of California, Berkeley, USA

We investigate the electrons, phonons, photons, spins, and their mutual interactions in condensed matter systems using theoretical methods and computations from first principles. We also develop the theories and computational methods for materials modeling and for simulating experiments.

1. Jae-Mo Lihm and Cheol-Hwan Park, "Reliable methods for seamless stitching of tight-binding models based on maximally localized Wannier functions," Phys. Rev. B 99, 125117 (2019): Editors' Suggestion.
2. Kangwon Kim, Soo Yeon Lim, Jae-Ung Lee, Sungmin Lee, Tae Yun Kim, Kisoo Park, Gun Sang Jeon, Cheol-Hwan Park, Je-Geun Park, and Hyeonsik Cheong, "Suppression of magnetic ordering in XXZ-type antiferromagnetic monolayer NiPS3," Nat. Commun. 10, 345 (2019).
3. Jong Hyun Jung, Cheol-Hwan Park, and Jisoon Ihm, "A rigorous method of calculating exfoliation energies from first principles,” Nano Lett. 18, 2759-2765 (2018).
4. Pilkwang Kim, Ji Hoon Ryoo, and Cheol-Hwan Park, "Breakdown of the chiral anomaly in Weyl semimetals in a strong magnetic field,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 266401 (2017): Editors' Suggestion.
5. Ji Hoon Ryoo and Cheol-Hwan Park, "Hidden orbital polarization in diamond, silicon, germanium, gallium arsenide and layered materials," NPG Asia Mater. 9, e382 (2017).
6. Jae-Ung Lee, Sungmin Lee, Ji Hoon Ryoo, Soonmin Kang, Tae Yun Kim, Pilkwang Kim, Cheol-Hwan Park, Je-Geun Park, and Hyeonsik Cheong, "Ising-type magnetic ordering in atomically thin FePS3,” Nano Lett. 16, 7433-7438 (2016).
7. Tae Yun Kim, Cheol-Hwan Park, and Nicola Marzari, "The electronic thermal conductivity of graphene,” Nano Lett. 16, 2439-2443 (2016).