Professor Choong-Shik Yoo is Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Institute for Shock Physics, Washington State University, USA. He received his PhD from UCLA, USA. His current research interests concern chemistry at extreme conditions. He received the DOE Excellence in Defense Materials Research in 2005 and 1995. He was elected Vice-President of the AIRAPT in 2011. E-mail: csyoo@wsu.edu.