Rate My Professor Honggu Chun

Honggu Chun is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Engineering faculty at Korea University, where he has served since March 2018, following roles as Associate Professor from March 2013 to February 2018 and Assistant Professor from March 2011 to February 2013. He obtained his B.S. in 1997, M.S. in 1999, and Ph.D. in 2004 from Seoul National University. Chun's professional career includes a visiting scholar position at the Department of Genetics, Harvard University from January 2017 to January 2018; adjunct associate professor at Seoul National University's Department of Nano Science and Technology from July 2010 to June 2012; assistant research professor at Seoul National University's Advanced Institutes of Convergence Technology from April 2010 to February 2011; postdoctoral research associate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from October 2006 to March 2010 and at Seoul National University's Medical Research Center from April 2005 to September 2006; and cofounder and R&D department head at Elbio, Inc. from October 1998 to March 2005.

His research focuses on DNA read/write technologies, exosome separation, spatial transcriptomics, hydraulic energy harvesting, iontronics, neuro-interfaces, clinical diagnosis, and instrumentation, with emphasis on glycan analysis of exosomes and cancer cells via electrochemistry, Ag nanoparticle aggregation for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, DNA data storage, DNA microarray chips, and high-throughput exosome isolation using nanoporous membranes. Chun received the Young Innovator Award from The Korean Society of Medical & Biological Engineering in 2013. Notable publications include 'Iontronics' in Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry (2015, co-correspondence author), 'Red blood cell and white blood cell separation using a lateral-dimension scalable microchip based on hydraulic jump and sedimentation' in Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical (2020, co-correspondence author), 'Flexible and Stable Omniphobic Surfaces based on Biomimetic Repulsive Air-Spring Structures' in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2019, co-correspondence author), 'DNA microarray chips: Fabrication and cutting-edge applications' in Chemical Engineering Journal (2024), and 'High-throughput exosome isolation based on bidirectional flow control through nanoporous membrane' in Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical (2024). His work has accumulated over 1,600 citations, demonstrating substantial impact in biomedical engineering and analytical chemistry.