Email: ybkang at postech.ac.kr

Contact: +82 (54) 279-9032

Office: GIFT Room 593

Education

• Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, POSTECH, Korea 

Employment

• 2009-present: Assistant, Associate, Full Professor, GIFT, POSTECH

• 2022-present: Joint Appointed Professor, DMSE ,POSTECH

• 2022-2024: Adjunct Professor, Yonsei University

• 2018-2019: Invited Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada

• 2011-2011: Visiting Researcher, Technical Research Laboratories, POSCO

• 2005-2009: Post-Doc. & Research Associate, CRCT, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada

Area of Specialization

• High-temperature experiments for the chemical reaction of metals and non-metals

• Computational and solution thermodynamics

• Reaction kinetics and mechanism analysis

Research Interest

• Clean Steel Production for High-Value-Added Product

• Low C Ferrous Metallurgy: Hydrogen-based Ironmaking, Ferrous Scrap Recycling

• Hydrogen Production: Turquoise Hydrogen

• Computational Thermodynamics and Reaction Kinetics