Dinh Loc Duong received his Ph.D. from the Sungkyunkwan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (SAINT) in 2012 under the supervision Prof. Young Hee Lee. After his first postdoc in the same lab from 2012 to 2014, he joined Kern's department at Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research from 2014 to 2016 as a junior scientist. From 2016 to 2019, he was a research professor at IBS Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics (CINAP), Institute of Basic Science, Korea. He is now an assistant professor of Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU). His current research interests are 2D materials, particularly magnetism and superconductivity, including their growth, characterization, and applications.