Curriculum Vitae. Sungnam Park. Department of Chemistry The University of Chicago 5735 South Ellis Ave. SCL023 Chicago, IL

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1 Curriculum Vitae Sungnam Park 5735 South Ellis Ave. SCL023 Telephone: Fax: EDUCATION Ph.D. in Chemistry (Anticipated June 2005) Advisor : Prof. Norbert F. Scherer One- and two-dimensional polarizability response spectroscopy: studies of ultrafast solvent dynamics in solvation M.S. in Chemistry Korea University, Seoul, Korea, February 1999 Advisor : Prof. Keon Kim Spectroscopic measurements of the first and second acid dissociation constants of carbonic acid at elevated temperatures B.S. in Chemistry Korea University, Seoul, Korea, February 1997 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Ph.D. Research (Oct/1999 ~ Present), Chicago, IL. Advisor: Prof. Norbert F. Scherer Time-resolved spectroscopy of liquids and solutions 1. Polarizability response spectroscopy of nonequilibrium systems 2. Four-wave-mixing (FWM) nonlinear spectroscopy 3. Optical heterodyne detected transient grating (OHD-TG) spectroscopy 4. Pump-probe absorption spectroscopy 5. Polarization anisotropy measurements (optical Kerr effect and dichroism) Design and construction of femtosecond laser systems and related optical systems 1. Cavity-dumped Ti:Sapphire oscillator 2. High repetition rate Ti:Sapphire regenerative amplifier

2 3. Regenerative amplifier with intracavity chirped mirrors. 4. Heterodyne detected four-wave mixing spectrometer based on diffractive optics 5. White light continuum generation Data acquisition interfacing with GPIB/Labview programming M.S. Research (Mar/1997 ~ Feb/1999) Korea University, Seoul, Korea Advisor: Prof. Keon Kim Design of high-pressure and high-temperature UV-Visible absorption cell with titanium body and sapphire windows Study of acid-base reactions at high-pressure and high-temperature ph measurements of hydrothermal solutions using optical ph indicators PUBLICATIONS AND WORK IN PROGRESS 1. Femtosecond coherent four-wave-mixing studies of surface plasmon dynamics in Au nanorods, Sungnam Park, Matthew Pelton, Mingzhao Liu, Philippe Guyot- Sionnest, and Norbert F. Scherer, Manuscript in preparation, Two-dimensional measurement of the solvent intermolecular response in Solvation Sungnam Park, Jeongho Kim, and Norbert F. Scherer, Manuscript in preparation, Ultrafast dephasing of photoexcited polarons in conductive polyaniline II: Comparison of polaron dynamics in primary and secondary doped systems, Jeongho Kim, Sungnam Park, and Norbert F. Scherer, Submitted to JPCb, Solvent friction in solvation studied by polarizability response spectroscopy Sungnam Park, Jeongho Kim, Margaret Hershberger, and Norbert F. Scherer, Manuscript in preparation, Solvent intermolecular polarizability response in solvation Sungnam Park, Bret N. Flanders, Xiaoming Shang, Robert A. Westervelt, Jeongho Kim, and Norbert F. Scherer, J. Chem. Phys, 2003, 118(9), Ultrafast dephasing of photoexcited polarons in primary doped polyaniline. Kim, Jeongho; Unterreiner, Andreas -N.; Rane, Sachin; Park, Sungnam; Jureller, Justin; Book, Lewis; Liau, Yish-Hann; Scherer, Norbert F., J. Phys. Chem. B, 2002, 106(50),

3 7. Directly measuring the coupling of solvent intermolecular modes to photoinduced chemical reaction. Park, Sungnam; Kim, Jeongho; Scherer, Norbert F., Trends in Optics and Photonics (2002), 72(Thirteenth International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena, 2002), Ultrafast dephasing of photoexcited polarons in primary doped polyaniline Kim, J.; Unterreiner, A.-N.; Rane, S.; Park, S.; Jureller, J.; Book, L.; Liau, Y.-H.; Scherer, N. F. Trends in Optics and Photonics (2002), 72(Thirteenth International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena, 2002), Spectroscopic measurement of the acid dissociation constant of 2-naphthol and the second dissociation constant of carbonic acid at elevated temperatures Sungnam Park, Hyeongnam Kim, Keon Kim, JeongAe Lee, and Dong-seok Lho, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 1999, 1, Spectrophotometric measurement of the first dissociation constants of carbonic acid at elevated temperatures. Sungnam Park, ChangShik Kim, MyungHwa Kim, In-Ja Lee, and Keon Kim, J. Chem. Soc., Faraday Trans., 1998, 94(10), CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Gordon Research Conference on the Chemistry & Physics of Liquids, Holderness School, NH, August 2003 Poster: Two-Dimensional Polarizability Response Spectroscopy Studies of Solvation. Thirteenth International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena, Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 2002 Talk: Directly Measuring the Coupling of Solvent Intermolecular Modes to Photoinduced Chemical Reaction Gordon Research Conference on the Chemistry & Physics of Liquids, Holderness School, NH, August 2001 Poster: Solvation Spectral Densities from 2-color Time-resolved Polarizability Spectroscopy TEACHING EXPERIENCE Teaching assistant, General Chemistry Lab, Winter 2001 Teaching assistant, General Chemistry Lab, Autumn Spring 2000

4 Korea University, Seoul, Korea Laboratory manager, General Chemistry Lab, Spring 1999 Teaching assistant, Physical Chemistry, Spring 1998 Teaching assistant, Physical Chemistry Lab, Autumn 1997 Teaching assistant, General Chemistry, Spring 1997 SOFTWARE Labview (National Instruments): Data Acquisition Mathcad and Matlab: Data Analysis (Nonlinear Fitting, Fourier transformation ) Gaussian 98: Electronic structure calculation Origin: Graphics MS Office AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS Baek-Woon Fellowship, Korea University, Seoul, Korea 1996 ~ 1998 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Chemical Society Optical Society of America REFERENCES Professor Norbert F. Scherer 5735 S. Ellis Ave. SCL033 Tel : Fax : nfschere@uchicago.edu

5 Professor Philippe Guyot-Sionnest 5460 S. Ellis Ave. RI L-103 Tel: (773) Fax : (773) pgs@uchicago.edu Professor Takeshi Oka 5735 Ellis Ave. SCL268 Tel : (773) Fax : (773) t-oka@uchicago.edu