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Park, Hyunggyu

QUC Distinguished Professor

Statistical Physics

Hyunggyu Park has a broad experience in investigating emergent properties of general many body systems, ranging from classical magnetic systems, incommensurate systems, and quasicrystals to nonequilibrium stochastic complex systems. During the last decades, he focused on nonequilibrium phase transitions and critical phenomena and introduced several important concepts on how the system evolves into frozen states. Systems with frozen states show extensive applications from self-organized criticality to glassy systems with multiply degenerated ground states. Current interests include nonequilibrium fluctuation theorems, disordered systems, synchronization, ratchets, traffic flow, and networks.


  • 2010 - 2012 : Member, Basic Reseach Promotion Commission in National Science and Technology Council
  • 1975 - 1979 : Department of Physics, Seoul National University, Korea (BS)
  • 1979 - 1981 : Department of Physics, Seoul National University, Korea (MS)
  • 1982 - 1983 : Department of Physics, University of California at Santa Cruz
  • 1983 - 1988 : Department of Physics, University of Washington, USA (PhD)
  • 1988 - 1990 : Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University
  • 1990 - 1992 : Research Associate, Department of Physics, Boston University
  • 1992 - 1996 : Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Inha University
  • 1996 - 2001 : Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Inha University
  • 1998 - 1999 : Visiting Scientist, Department of Physics, University of Washington
  • 1999 - 2001 : Chair of Department of Physics, Inha University
  • 2001 - 2002 : Professor, Department of Physics, Inha University
  • 2002 - Present : Professor, School of Physics, KIAS
  • 2003 - 2006 : Steering Committee Member of KIAS
  • 2005 - 2006 : Chair of School of Physics, KIAS
  • 2006 - 2008 : Chair of Statistical Division of the Korean Physical Society
  • 2007 - 2009 : Program Manager, Korea Research Foundation
  • 2007 : Dean of Faculty, KIAS
  • 2008 - 2009 : Vice President, KIAS
  • 2009 - 2010 : Visiting Professor, Department of Physics, University of Washington
  • 2010 - 2012 : Review Board Member, National Research Foundation of Korea
  • 1986 : Joseph H. Weis Prize at University of Washington
  • 2008 : Haksul (Science) award from the Korean Physical Society

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