Professional Experiences

2023 – Associate Professor

Department of Energy Science & Engineering, Chemical Engineering Track, DGIST, Daegu, Korea

2019 – 2023 Assistant Professor

Department of Energy Science & Engineering, Chemical Engineering Track, DGIST, Daegu, Korea

2017 – 2019 Postdoctoral Researcher (Advisor: Dr. Haimei Zheng, Co-Advisor: Dr. Emory Chan, Dr. Peter Ercius)

Materials Sciences Division & Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, CA, US

(Project: In Situ Liquid Cell Electron Microscopy: Atomic Level Heterogeneity and Fluctuations at Solid-Liquid Interfaces)

2016 – 2017 Postdoctoral Researcher (Advisor:  Prof. Taeghwan Hyeon)

Institute for Basic Science (IBS) & School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea 

Research Institute of Advanced Materials & Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Project: Synthesis, Characterization, and Device Application of Quantum Dots & Formation Mechanism Study of Inorganic Semiconductor Nanomaterials

Education

2011 – 2016 Ph.D., Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Thesis: Synthesis and Characterization of Ternary Selenide Quantum Nanostructures

Supervisor: Prof. Taeghwan Hyeon

2007 – 2011 B.S., Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Summa Cum Laude

Honors & Awards 

2011            The Best Graduate Award by Seoul National University

2016             MRS 2016 Spring Meeting Best Poster Award by Material Research Society

2016             The Best Research Award by Chem. & Bio. Eng., Seoul National University  & Donjin Co.

2020             The Miwon Young Scientist Award  (미원상사신진연구자상)  by the Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (한국공업화학회)

2020             POSCO Science Fellowship by POSCO TJ Park Foundation  (Research area: Energy materials)

2023             DGIST 2023 Best Teaching Award (DGIST 2023 최우수 교육상) by DGIST

Scholary Activities

Journal Peer Reviewer:  Nature Photonics, Science Advanaces, JACS, Nano Lett., Adv. Sci., Adv. Funct. Mater., ACS Catal., Nanoscale, Nano Research, Inorg. Chem., Appl. Surf. Sci., Korean J. Chem. Eng., etc.

Membership (Domestic):

-한국화공학회: 종신회원 (2019-), 평의원 (2024-2025), 재료부문위원회 운영위원 (2024-2025), 교재편찬위원회 위원 (2022), 교육인재양성위원회 위원 (2020-2021), 

-대한화학회: 정회원 (2019-), 재료화학분과 학술간사 (2023-)

-한국광과학회: 정회원 (2021-), 태양연료분과 분과위원장 (2024-), 태양연료분과 학술위원 (2022-2023) 

-한국고분자학회: 정회원 (2019-)

-한국정보디스플레이학회: 정회원 (2019-)

-한국공업화학회: 정회원 (2019-)

-한국현미경학회: 정회원 (2020-)

-한국유연인쇄전자학회: 정회원 (2022-)

Fundings

Ongoing Projects

2023.11 – 2026.10 산업통산자원부 국제산업기술협력사업 (Role: PI, 주관기관책임)

2021.03 – 2025.02 한국연구재단 개인기초연구 우수신진연구 (Role: PI, 책임)

2022.12 – 2024.11 삼성전자 미래기술육성센터 2단계 (Role: PI, 책임)

Completed Projects

2020.06 – 2021.05 한국연구재단 개인기초연구 기본연구 (Role: PI, 책임)

2020.07 – 2021.01 한국연구재단 소재융합혁신기술개발(경쟁형)-1단계 (Role: Co-PI, 세부책임)

2020.12 – 2022.11 삼성전자 미래기술육성센터 1단계 (Role: PI, 책임)

2021.01 – 2022.12 POSCO Science Fellowship (Role: PI, 책임)

2021.07 – 2022.12 한국연구재단 미래수소원천기술개발사업(경쟁형)-1단계 (Role: 참여)

2021.04 – 2023.12 산업통상자원부 소재부품기술개발사업 함께달리기 (Role: 참여)