Aloysius Soon, PhD CSci FRSC FInstP
@aloysius-soon.bsky.social
Professor, Materials Theory Group, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Yonsei University
🇸🇬 🇳🇿 🇦🇺 🇩🇪 🇰🇷 #USYDAlumni #ISTJ
🌏 https://www.materials-theory.group
🇸🇬 🇳🇿 🇦🇺 🇩🇪 🇰🇷 #USYDAlumni #ISTJ
🌏 https://www.materials-theory.group
重庆大学 Chongqing University [Part 3]
June 25, 2025 at 8:13 AM
重庆大学 Chongqing University [Part 3]
重庆大学 Chongqing University [Part 2]
June 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM
重庆大学 Chongqing University [Part 2]
重庆大学 Chongqing University [Part 1]
June 25, 2025 at 8:11 AM
重庆大学 Chongqing University [Part 1]
Last week I spent a really fruitful and fantastic time at 重庆大学 Chongqing University with students and professors at the Division of Metallurgical Engineering in the College of Materials Science and Engineering.
June 25, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Last week I spent a really fruitful and fantastic time at 重庆大学 Chongqing University with students and professors at the Division of Metallurgical Engineering in the College of Materials Science and Engineering.
I also had the pleasure to also have the opportunity to meet Professor Chenguang Bai 白晨光 and Mr. Buxin Chen 陈布新 - both from Chongqing University. We spent time discussing on experiment-theory collaborations in modern metallurgical research, as well as academic exchanges to come in the near future. 👍🏻
May 26, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I also had the pleasure to also have the opportunity to meet Professor Chenguang Bai 白晨光 and Mr. Buxin Chen 陈布新 - both from Chongqing University. We spent time discussing on experiment-theory collaborations in modern metallurgical research, as well as academic exchanges to come in the near future. 👍🏻
Over the weekend, it was truly awesome to have met my incoming PhD student (Mr. Yucen Kuang 况雨岑 from Chongqing University 重庆大学) together with other Chinese graduate students here at Yonsei. It is Yucen's first time to Korea so it was a blast for him! 👍🏻
May 26, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Over the weekend, it was truly awesome to have met my incoming PhD student (Mr. Yucen Kuang 况雨岑 from Chongqing University 重庆大学) together with other Chinese graduate students here at Yonsei. It is Yucen's first time to Korea so it was a blast for him! 👍🏻
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Anyone who wants to call basic scientific research “wasteful spending” should have to get past Reviewer 2.
Seriously, I wish people knew how hard we work, often for less $ than could be made in industry, all because we care about helping society and mentoring the next generation.
Seriously, I wish people knew how hard we work, often for less $ than could be made in industry, all because we care about helping society and mentoring the next generation.
May 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Anyone who wants to call basic scientific research “wasteful spending” should have to get past Reviewer 2.
Seriously, I wish people knew how hard we work, often for less $ than could be made in industry, all because we care about helping society and mentoring the next generation.
Seriously, I wish people knew how hard we work, often for less $ than could be made in industry, all because we care about helping society and mentoring the next generation.
Reposted by Aloysius Soon, PhD CSci FRSC FInstP
The biggest paper I was ever part of appeared on arXiV today: "Roadmap on Advancements of the FHI-aims Software Package". Over 20 years of work. Immensely grateful to the 200+ people on this paper, who pushed our ability to simulate materials forward! #chemsky #compchemsky
arxiv.org/abs/2505.00125
arxiv.org/abs/2505.00125
Roadmap on Advancements of the FHI-aims Software Package
Electronic-structure theory is the foundation of the description of materials including multiscale modeling of their properties and functions. Obviously, without sufficient accuracy at the base, relia...
arxiv.org
May 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The biggest paper I was ever part of appeared on arXiV today: "Roadmap on Advancements of the FHI-aims Software Package". Over 20 years of work. Immensely grateful to the 200+ people on this paper, who pushed our ability to simulate materials forward! #chemsky #compchemsky
arxiv.org/abs/2505.00125
arxiv.org/abs/2505.00125
Spent a day with the School of Materials Science & Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, kindly hosted by Prof Tianquan Lin and Ms Wensha Huang. Still mesmerized by the gigantic scale of operations at SJTU! Mind blowing! 🤯 300+ faculty with > 9 buildings alone for SMSE!! Wow!
February 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Spent a day with the School of Materials Science & Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, kindly hosted by Prof Tianquan Lin and Ms Wensha Huang. Still mesmerized by the gigantic scale of operations at SJTU! Mind blowing! 🤯 300+ faculty with > 9 buildings alone for SMSE!! Wow!
Had a great time visiting the Suzhou Institute of Nano-tech and Nano-bionics (SINANO, CAS). Fantastic "Nano Energy & X" seminar organized by Prof Xiaodong Wu and his team. Thank you so much for having us!!
February 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Had a great time visiting the Suzhou Institute of Nano-tech and Nano-bionics (SINANO, CAS). Fantastic "Nano Energy & X" seminar organized by Prof Xiaodong Wu and his team. Thank you so much for having us!!
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Wanting to connect with busy senior scientists, this #PhD student took a risk and invited them to lunch.
Read their story in this week's #ScienceWorkingLife: https://scim.ag/3EakRh3
Read their story in this week's #ScienceWorkingLife: https://scim.ag/3EakRh3
January 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Wanting to connect with busy senior scientists, this #PhD student took a risk and invited them to lunch.
Read their story in this week's #ScienceWorkingLife: https://scim.ag/3EakRh3
Read their story in this week's #ScienceWorkingLife: https://scim.ag/3EakRh3
Reposted by Aloysius Soon, PhD CSci FRSC FInstP
The early-career success of academic researchers is better predicted by their publication record during their postdoctoral years than by where they obtained their PhD, according to a study of 45,572 academic careers worldwide. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
January 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The early-career success of academic researchers is better predicted by their publication record during their postdoctoral years than by where they obtained their PhD, according to a study of 45,572 academic careers worldwide. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Reposted by Aloysius Soon, PhD CSci FRSC FInstP
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X
https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai
https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai
Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.
go.nature.com
January 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X
https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai
https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai
Reposted by Aloysius Soon, PhD CSci FRSC FInstP
Welcome immigrants from X interested in science to the friendlier skies of @bsky.app, as documented by a new @nature.com survey (but you already knew that 😉)
"Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
January 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Welcome immigrants from X interested in science to the friendlier skies of @bsky.app, as documented by a new @nature.com survey (but you already knew that 😉)
"Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Reposted by Aloysius Soon, PhD CSci FRSC FInstP
As the political relationship between the United States and China has frayed, the scientific ties between them have become more fragile
https://go.nature.com/3C9NSZy
https://go.nature.com/3C9NSZy
How to sustain scientific collaboration amid worsening US–China relations
Researchers need to define ‘safe zones’ for joint work in which the benefits outweigh the political risks. Here’s how.
go.nature.com
January 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
As the political relationship between the United States and China has frayed, the scientific ties between them have become more fragile
https://go.nature.com/3C9NSZy
https://go.nature.com/3C9NSZy
Dinner meeting with the board members of Council of ASEAN Professors in Korea at Daegu. The International Conference on Interdisciplinary Life Sciences and ASEAN Development will be held at Keimyung University and very much looking forward to it! 👍🏼
December 6, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Dinner meeting with the board members of Council of ASEAN Professors in Korea at Daegu. The International Conference on Interdisciplinary Life Sciences and ASEAN Development will be held at Keimyung University and very much looking forward to it! 👍🏼
It went from "Is this real" to "ok, this is not funny" to "alright, it is hilarious". For those who did not know, last night South Korea was "momentarily" under the martial law issued by the President which was then unanimously voted down by the assembly within hours! 🤷🏻🤦🏻 Now, they want him out!
December 4, 2024 at 1:50 AM
It went from "Is this real" to "ok, this is not funny" to "alright, it is hilarious". For those who did not know, last night South Korea was "momentarily" under the martial law issued by the President which was then unanimously voted down by the assembly within hours! 🤷🏻🤦🏻 Now, they want him out!
First snow in Seoul (city) ❄️☃️
November 27, 2024 at 1:30 AM
First snow in Seoul (city) ❄️☃️
Just returned from ENGE2024 at Jeju. Great to catch up with colleagues from City University of Hong Kong.
November 26, 2024 at 2:39 AM
Just returned from ENGE2024 at Jeju. Great to catch up with colleagues from City University of Hong Kong.
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How great is it to see an article by Franklin Tao in this week's @science.org?
And what an outrageous travesty it is that he has (still) no institutional affiliation.
Of course, expect "research security" controls to ramp up dramatically, soon...
#ChemSky #SciSky
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
And what an outrageous travesty it is that he has (still) no institutional affiliation.
Of course, expect "research security" controls to ramp up dramatically, soon...
#ChemSky #SciSky
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Surface restructuring and predictive design of heterogeneous catalysts
Heterogeneous catalysts, which often consist of metal nanoparticles loaded on supports such as metal oxides, can undergo several types of restructuring under reaction and catalytic conditions. Advance...
www.science.org
November 24, 2024 at 10:04 PM
How great is it to see an article by Franklin Tao in this week's @science.org?
And what an outrageous travesty it is that he has (still) no institutional affiliation.
Of course, expect "research security" controls to ramp up dramatically, soon...
#ChemSky #SciSky
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
And what an outrageous travesty it is that he has (still) no institutional affiliation.
Of course, expect "research security" controls to ramp up dramatically, soon...
#ChemSky #SciSky
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Here is my Scholar Goggler 😂 For those who want a try, go here: scholargoggler.com 👍
November 24, 2024 at 9:08 AM
Here is my Scholar Goggler 😂 For those who want a try, go here: scholargoggler.com 👍
Now we have Prof Babaros Ozyilmaz from National University of Singapore telling more about advanced 2D nanomaterials.
November 22, 2024 at 2:07 AM
Now we have Prof Babaros Ozyilmaz from National University of Singapore telling more about advanced 2D nanomaterials.
I have heard of such threats some years ago too and this is a tragedy. Really. A department of central science removed is just tragic. 😢
As a chemist who now works in Biology and knows the critical role of chemistry as a life science this ⬇️ saddens me to no end 😔 Chemistry is an *essential* science, it prob needs rebranding and a touch of fresh edu-paint to survive, not to be wiped! 😩 #chemsky
www.chemistryworld.com/news/univers...
www.chemistryworld.com/news/univers...
University of Reading proposes closing its chemistry department next year
The university joins several others that are considering the future of their departments and undergraduate programmes
www.chemistryworld.com
November 19, 2024 at 8:45 AM
I have heard of such threats some years ago too and this is a tragedy. Really. A department of central science removed is just tragic. 😢