| 2004 | Seoul University School of Physics Doctorate |
| 2007 | Konkuk University Assistant Professor of Physics |
| 2008 ~ Present | KIAS Professor of Computational Science |
| 2015 | University of California at Berkeley (USA) Visiting Professor |
| 2016 ~ Present | Head of KIAS Large Number Computation Laboratory |
His original research has turned physics on its head as he gave graphene nanoribbon magnetic properties not held by the original graphene and altered the external electric field to give the graphene particular semiconductor properties. Much of this was experimentally confirmed and announced in Natural and Physical Review Letters.
Two research papers on Professor Son's graphene nanoribbon were selected by Google Scholar as Classic Papers and he has been recognized for numerous important achievements in the field of graphene with approximately 7,000 citations over the past ten years. His 70 research papers over the past ten years including theories on crystal growth by rearranging SiC surface structure, never achieved in the past forty years, were cited over 13,000 times.
Although Professor Son is a theoretical physicist, he is also outstanding in practical data analysis and has delivered over 250 lectures at leading international conferences including Trieste, the most authoritative conference in computational physics, and ICPS, a major physics conference, His joint research with Korean experimental research teams has contributed to the development of basic science research exploring the essential properties of nanomaterials in Korea.
