A member of the Missouri S&T faculty since 2010, Dr. Yew San Hor is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics. His specialization is Experimental Condensed Matter Physics.

Dr. Hor received the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development CAREER Award in 2013. The NSF describes the CAREER Awards as the agency’s “most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations.”

Dr. Hor’s research interests include growing new topological insulator and superconductor crystals and exploring the surfaces of the topological insulators (TIs), as well as exploration of novel solid state bulk and nanostructured materials such as quantum material systems including, but not limited to three dimensional topological insulators, topological superconductors, nanostructured thermoelectric power/cooling materials, and correlated electron systems which may have implications both for scientific understanding and for future technological developments.

He developed a course at S&T that integrates basic concepts in solid state physics with experimental techniques in condensed matter physics.

In December 2018, Dr. Hor was among the nation’s “highly cited researchers” in his field, according to Clarivate Analytics. Clarivate Analytics compiles the listing of researchers who are “selected for their exceptional research performance, demonstrated by production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science.” He is one of only eight researchers from the University of Missouri System to make the list.