Biography

Jwa-Min Nam received his Ph.D. degree in chemistry from Northwestern University (Chad Mirkin & Mark Ratner) (2004) and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley (Jay Groves) (2004-2005). Dr. Nam started his independent career as an assistant professor at Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University in 2006. He is currently a full professor in chemistry and an adjunct professor in biological sciences at Seoul National University. He is serving as the Vice Dean (Planning & Public Relations) of College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University, and was a Vice Chair of Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University (2019-2021).

He has been elected as a Fellow of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST) (2024). He is a member of Global R&D Special Committee, the Presidential Advisory Council on Science and Technology, and was a member of Samsung Electronics Future Technology Committee (2019-2021). Jwa-Min Nam won many awards including Collegiate Inventors Award, National Inventors Hall of Fame, USA & USPTO (2004), Victor K. LaMer Award, American Chemical Society (2006), Outstanding Research Achievement Award, Ministry of Edu., Sci. & Tech., Republic of Korea (2010), Presidential Young Scientist Award, President of the Republic of Korea (2012), Distinguished Lectureship Award, Chemical Society of Japan (2013), Minister’s Basic Research Award from the Ministry of Science and ICT, Republic of Korea (2017), S-OIL Outstanding Thesis Advisor Award (2019), SNU Excellence in Research Award, the President, Seoul National University (2021), Outstanding Researcher Award, Inorganic Chemistry Division, the Korean Chemical Society (2022) and the Basic Science Award, the Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea (2022).

He served as an Associate Editor (2020-2023) and is currently an Executive Editor of Nano Letters (ACS Publications). He is also on the editorial advisory boards of ACS Central Science (ACS Publications), Accounts of Chemical Research (ACS Publications), Small Methods (Wiley-VCH), Particle & Particle Systems Characterization (Wiley-VCH), ChemNanoMat (Wiley-VCH), Sensors and Diagnostics (RSC) and Journal of Nanobiotechnology. Jwa-Min’s research interests include plasmonic nanoparticles, surface-enhanced spectroscopy, nanobiosensors, nanobiocomputing, nanomachines and nanoparticle-based therapeutics.