Chan Park has been a professor in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea, since 2005. He holds a B.S. and an M.S., both in inorganic materials engineering, from SNU and a Ph.D. in ceramics from Alfred University, NY, USA. Before joining SNU in 2005 as an associate professor, he was a senior research staff member at Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute, South Korea (2001–2005), a Senior Materials Scientist at IGC-SuperPower, NY, USA (2000–2001), and a research associate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN, USA (1996–2000). His research interests focus on solid-state reaction mechanisms and kinetics; interface engineering and characterization of films/composites; grain boundary engineering of electronic ceramics; optical materials, active as well as passive, for various devices.