Taekjip Ha
| Taekjip Ha | |
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| Born |
February 20, 1968 Seoul, South Korea |
| Citizenship | American |
| Fields | Physics, biophysics, computational biology |
| Institutions |
Johns Hopkins University (Since 2015) University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (2000-2015) |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley, Seoul National University, Stanford University |
| Academic advisors | Raymond Jeanloz, Daniel Chemla, Shimon Weiss, Steven Chu |
| Notable awards |
National Academy of Sciences Member (2015) Ho-Am Prize in Science (2011) Searle Scholars Program Sloan Fellowship Bárány Award Cottrell Scholar |
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Website Group Website Johns Hopkins University Faculty Page |
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Taekjip Ha (born February 20, 1968, Seoul, South Korea) is a South Korean-born American biophysicist who is currently a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He was previously the Gutgsell Professor of Physics, at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he was the principal investigator of Single Molecule Nanometry group. He is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.
He received a B.S. degree in physics at Seoul National University in 1990, and joined the physics department at University of California, Berkeley where he began to study atomic physics in the lab of Raymond Jeanloz in Berkeley’s geophysics department. He worked on a project to place nitrogen and carbon under very high pressures, with the goal to create a material harder than diamonds. During this time, he had to take a temporary leave of absence from Berkeley to South Korea for a year to fulfill South Korea’s military service requirements. Upon his return, Ha changed his research interests and joined the lab of Daniel Chemla, a prominent scientist known for his studies of quantum optics of semiconductors. Soon after joining Chemla’s group, Ha began working closely with scientist Shimon Weiss to build a near-field scanning optical microscope, a machine equipped with a small aperture and a short-pulse laser able to measure a material's properties with high time and spatial resolution. He subsequently received both his M.A. and Ph.D. at Berkeley and completed postdoctoral research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Stanford University with advisor Steven Chu. He was appointed to the faculty of the University of Illinois in 2000 as assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology.
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