Noh Do Young is a South Korean physicist specializing in condensed matter physics and materials science using synchrotrons and XFELs.

His research has utilized a number of synchrotron radiation facilities, such as Advanced Photon Source, SPring-8, National Synchrotron Light Source, PLS, and X-ray free electron lasers, including SCALA and PAL-XFEL.

He then went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for his Ph.D. which was completed in 1991 under doctoral adviser Professor Robert J. Birgeneau.

His thesis was a series of X-ray scattering studies concerning the positional and orientational order in two and three dimensional liquid crystal systems.

[3][4] He has served as a member of the Korea Research Council of Fundamental Science Technology.