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Hongkun Park is the Mark Hyman Jr. Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics at Harvard University. He received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from Seoul National University in 1990, graduating summa cum laude and as valedictorian. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Stanford University in 1996 under the direction of Richard N. Zare. Following his doctorate, Park completed a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with Paul Alivisatos and Paul McEuen, focusing on electron transport through individual nanocrystals and nanocrystal arrays. He joined the faculty of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University in 1999.

Park holds joint appointments in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and the Department of Physics. He is an associate member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and is affiliated with the Harvard Quantum Science and Engineering Program, the Center for Brain Science, and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. His research focuses on nanoscience, quantum science and engineering, the nano-bio interface, and brain-machine interfaces. Park has received numerous honors, including the David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science and Engineering, the NSF CAREER Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, election as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2025. He serves on the editorial advisory board of Nano Letters and has held roles such as executive committee member of the Harvard Quantum Initiative in Science and Engineering.