Yeongsu Cho

Yeongsu Cho

Assistant Professor

University of Houston

Yeongsu joined the group as a postdoc in October 2021. She received her Ph.D. at Columbia University with Prof. Timothy Berkelbach. Her PhD focused on developing semiempirical methods for excited states of nanomaterials. In the Kulik group, she worked on machine-learning-guided adaptive methods for multi-resolution materials modeling. She is now an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Houston.

Interests
  • strongly correlated systems
  • density functional theory
  • materials modeling
Education
  • PhD in Chemistry, 2021

    Columbia University

  • MS in Chemistry, 2017

    University of Chicago

  • BS in Chemistry and Physics, 2015

    Seoul National University

Publications

  1. Mixed-Chalcogen 2D Silver Phenylchalcogenides (Ag₁₋ₓEₓPh; E = S, Se, Te) (2024)
  2. Defect-Engineered Metal−Organic Frameworks as Bioinspired Heterogeneous Catalysts for Amide Bond Formation (2024)
  3. Ligand-mediated Quantum Yield Enhancement in 1-Dimensional Silver Organothiolate Metal-Organic Chalcogenolates (2024)
  4. Robust Chemiresistive Behavior in Conductive Polymer/MOF Composites (2024)
  5. Heterocyclic Modification Leading to Luminescent 0D Metal Organochalcogenide with Stable X-ray Scintillating Properties (2024)
  6. Improving Gas Adsorption Modeling for MOFs by Local Calibration of Hubbard U Parameters (2024)
  7. Gas-Phase and Solid-State Electronic Structure Analysis and DFT Benchmarking of HfCO (2023)
  8. 1D Hybrid Semiconductor Silver 2,6-Difluorophenylselenolate (2023)
  9. DFT-based Multireference Diagnostics in the Solid State: Application to Metal-organic Frameworks (2023)
  10. Light Emission in 2D Silver Phenylchalcogenolates (2022)