The Grainger College of Engineering
Physics

Hyun Youk

Hyun Youk
Hyun Youk he/him/his

Primary Research Area

  • Biological Physics
Associate Professor
333 Loomis Laboratory

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Education

  • Ph.D. in Physics, MIT, 2010
  • Honours B.Sc. in Physics & Mathematics, University of Toronto, 2004

Academic Positions

  • Associate Professor of Physics at UIUC, Nov 2025 - Present
  • Associate Professor of Systems Biology (Tenured) at UMass Chan Medical School, Nov 2020 - Nov 2025
  • Assistant Professor of Physics & Quantitative Biology at Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), Jan 2015 - Nov 2020
  • Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Fellow at UCSF, May 2011 - Sep 2014

Honors

  • EMBO Young Investigator Award (2018)
  • CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar (2018)
  • IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Biological Physics (2017)

Teaching Honors

  • Teacher of the Year Award in Nanobiology Program at TU Delft (2016)