Jinwoo Cheon is a Horace Underwood Professor of Chemistry at Yonsei University in Korea and the director of National Center for Evolutionary Nanoparticles. He graduated from Yonsei University with his B.S. and received his Ph.D. from University of Illinois, Urbana. He is a recipient of awards including Inchon Prize, Song-gok Award, and National Science Prize for Junior Faculty. Currently, he is a senior editor of Accounts of Chemical Research and an editorial board member of Nano Letters and the Journal of the Materials Chemistry. His research interests include “rational design” of inorganic nanocrystalline materials and their applications for biomedical and energy related sciences.