Meet the PI
Junha Jeon
Associate Professor
T 817.272.0262 | E junha.jeon@uta.edu | W jeonlab.uta.edu
O W. A. Baker Chemistry Research Building (CRB), Room 203
https://www.linkedin.com/in/junha-jeon/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WguneiUAAAAJ&hl=en
Education and Training
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Post-doctoral fellow, 2009-2011 (Professor Amos B. Smith, III)
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, 2009 (Professor Thomas R. Hoye)
Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
B.S. in Chemistry, 2000/M.S. in Chemistry, 2002
Position and Appointment
University of Texas Arlington, Arlington, TX
Associate Professor, 2017-present
Assistant Professor, 2011-2017
Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), South Korea
Division of Drug Discovery Research, Research fellow, 2003
Honors and Awards
President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching at the University of Texas at Arlington, 2017
Outstanding Science Teaching Award for the College of Science, UTA, 2017
ACS Young Organic Investigator, Young Academic Investigators symposium, 2016
Excellence in Teaching Award, The National Society of Leadership and Success, Sigma Alpha Phi UTA, 2015
ACS PRF Doctoral New Investigator, 2015
Robert L. Ferm Outstanding Graduate TA Award, University of Minnesota, 2005
Pre-Doctoral Graduate Research Fellowship, Korea Science and Engineering Foundation, 2003-2005