Songi Han
American chemist and academic
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Songi Han is an American chemist who is a professor in the department of chemistry and biochemistry at Northwestern University. Her research considers electron and nuclear spins as sensors and detectors. She was elected a Fellow of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in 2019 and president of the International EPR Society in 2020.
University of Koln
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| Born | 1972 (age 53–54) Seoul, South Korea |
| Alma mater | RWTH Aachen University University of Koln |
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| Institutions | Northwestern University University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Thesis | Correlation of Position and Motion by NMR: Pipe Flow, Falling Drop and Salt Water Ice. (2001) |
Early life and education
Han attended the University of Cologne as an undergraduate, where she majored in chemistry.[1] She moved to the RWTH Aachen University, where she investigated magnetic resonance. She was awarded the Ampere Society Raymond Andrew Prize in 2002.[2]
Research and career
Han has pioneered the use of spin based approaches (including electron paramagnetic resonance, Nuclear magnetic resonance and relaxometry, to understand the structure-property relationships of biomolecules. Her work on dynamic nuclear polarization has enabled new probes for monitoring biological processes.[3] This allows for the mapping of surface water differences around globular proteins.[4]
Awards and honors
- 2001 Ernst Award[5]
- 2002 1st Raymond Andrew Prize[6]
- 2004 The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Faculty Award[7]
- 2008 Packard Fellowship[8][9]
- 2011 National Institutes of Health Innovator Award[10]
- 2015 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Bessel Award[11][12]
- 2018 Biophysical Society Innovation Award[13][14]
- 2019 Named Fellow of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance[15]
- 2020 Elected President of the International EPR Society[16]
- 2021 Eastern Analytical Symposium Award for Outstanding Achievements in Magnetic Resonance[17][18]
- 2021 Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation FIB-Milling Sample Preparation for Cellular CryoET[19]
- 2023 Callaghan Lecturer Prize of the ISMAR[20]
- 2024 Mark and Nancy Ratner Professor of Chemistry[21]
- 2024 Bruker Prize Lecture of the Royal Society Chemistry EPR[22]
Selected publications
- Xuemei Zhang; Yanxian Lin; Neil A Eschmann; et al. (6 July 2017). "RNA stores tau reversibly in complex coacervates". PLOS Biology. 15 (7): e2002183. doi:10.1371/JOURNAL.PBIO.2002183. ISSN 1544-9173. PMC 5500003. PMID 28683104. Wikidata Q33879490.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: article number as page number (link) - Igor Koptyug; Kirill V. Kovtunov; Scott R Burt; Muhammad Sabieh Anwar; Christian Hilty; Song-I Han; Alexander Pines; Renad Z Sagdeev (5 April 2007). "para-Hydrogen-induced polarization in heterogeneous hydrogenation reactions". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 129 (17): 5580–5586. doi:10.1021/JA068653O. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 17408268. Wikidata Q57819663.
- Douglas H Fabini; Ting Ann Siaw; Constantinos C. Stoumpos; et al. (2 November 2017). "Universal Dynamics of Molecular Reorientation in Hybrid Lead Iodide Perovskites". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139 (46): 16875–16884. doi:10.1021/JACS.7B09536. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 29094934. Wikidata Q46123078.