Award 1. 2005 FACS Distinguished Young Chemist Award, Aug 25 2005 at1. 2005 FACS Distinguished Young Chemist Award, Aug 25 2005 at 11th Asian Chemical Congress. (By the Fedration of Asian Chemical Societies) 2. 2006 KCS-Wiley Young Scholar Award, October 20 2006, 98th KCS Meeting. (By the KCS-Wiley) 3. SKKU Young Fellowship, March, 2011 (By SungKyunKwan University) 4. Young Physical Chemist Award, September 29 2011, 108th KCS Meeting. (By the Physical Chemistry Devision of KCS) 5. 2012 Pople Medal, Jan 3, 2012 (By Asia-Pacific Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (APATCC)) 6. Elected as an Associate Member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology as of Jan 1, 2015 7. Kook Joe Shin Academic Excellence Prize, Physical Chemistry Division, Korean Chemical Society, April 20, 2018