Our lab is a collective of molecular simulation research investigators with an interest in studying the energy/bio soft materials. Molecular simulation is performed to quantitatively analyze the structure, dynamics, thermodynamics and reaction kinetics of several systems from the physical models given. Our mission is not only to provide the microscopic understanding of various molecular-level phenomena, but also to develop the advanced computational techniques / algorithms to properly capture the underlying physics and enhance the predictive power of molecular simulation. We have strong expertise in running classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulation, as well as high-performance supercomputing ecosystem equipped with ~150 GPUs for highly efficient computation. We have formed a strong network of research and experimental collaborations to pursue innovative studies in computational chemistry research.
Our Research
We are computational chemistry lab at SNU Department of Chemistry.
Our lab develops molecular simulations to solve problems that are critical in energy / bio applications. We use & develop statistical mechanics / molecular dynamics / coarse-grained methods / machine-learning / big data analysis to understand the mechanisms of chemical processes and help designing new functional materials.
Our Team
We are a group of graduate students and post-docs with a passion for running molecular simulations and advancing computational algorithms. We are looking for motivated individuals with a passion for computational chemistry research. If you’re interested, please consider joining us.
News
See below for the latest Son Research Lab news!
2024
We had great time with other computational chemistry groups!
Prof. Dr. Richard Dronskowski from RWTH Aachen gave us great talk about solid-state and quantum chemistry. We also had a nice dinner with him!
We celebrate Shinyun’s birthday at new SNU student office. The time gap betweeen visiting to the lab and birthday celebration is within 6 hours! Yoonku’s also started his UG lab participation.
We celebrate Akshay’s graduation on farewell party. We will miss you Akshay!
Seonghyeon’s poster presentation “Effects of Energetic Disorder in Doped Conducting Polymer: Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo Study” won a silver award at the Nano Korea 2024 Symposium! Congratulations, Seonghyeon!
Seungwon and Seonghyeon’s poster presentation won the best poster award at 2024 Korea-Japan Symposium on Molecular Science & 143rd Summer Symposium of KCS-Physical Chemistry Division! Congratulations, Seungwon and Seonghyeon!
2023
Prof. Son received Distinguished Young Chemist Award at Asian Chemical Congress 2023 in Istanbul. Congratulations professor!
2022
Our group’s work collaborated with Dr. Dong Won Chun “ Metastable hexagonal close-packed palladium hydride in liquid cell TEM “ is published on Nature. Congratulations!
2020
We’ll be sharing the latest lab news here. Check back regularly to see what we are up to!