POSTECH professor Noh Jun-seok. [POSTECH]
POSTECH professor Noh Jun-seok. [POSTECH]

Noh Jun-seok, a professor in the departments of mechanical engineering, chemical engineering and electrical engineering and the Graduate Institute of Ferrous and Energy Materials Technology at Pohang University of Science and Technology, has been named a fellow of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. He was recognized for his research in metamaterials and metasurfaces. SPIE selected 59 new fellows this year, and Noh is the only researcher based in South Korea among them.

Noh is a leading scholar in metamaterials and metasurfaces — engineered structures that enable artificial control of the properties of light. He received the Young Scientist Award (Presidential Prize) from the Korean Academy of Science and Technology in 2019 and the Young Engineer Award from the National Academy of Engineering of Korea in 2022. This April, he published two separate research papers simultaneously as corresponding author in the same issue of the journal Nature, a rare distinction that drew wide recognition. He also took up the role of associate editor of Applied Physics Letters, an international journal in applied physics, further cementing his standing in the global academic community.

"I am deeply honored to be named an SPIE fellow," Noh said. "I will dedicate myself to advancing metamaterial and metasurface technologies that freely control light, so that they can lead to new optical technologies and industrial applications."

SPIE was founded in 1955 and is a global professional society covering optics, optoelectronics, photonics and related fields. It has accumulated more than 250,000 members from 183 countries.


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