He was director of the National Creative Research Initiative Center for Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy and is founding director of the Center for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics in the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), located in Korea University.

He then studied in the University of Chicago where he majored in physical chemistry while at the same time was working there as a research assistant.

[1] In 2002, Cho was the chairman of the 1st International Conference on Multidimensional Vibrational Spectroscopy, held at Korea University.

He directed the National Creative Research Initiative Center for Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy from 2000 to 2009.

[2][3] In 2016, Choi Wonshik joined the Center as an associate director and head of the Super-depth Imaging Lab.