Research Project

April 2014 - present: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Korea

Working on a Ministry of Environment sponsored project titled "Development of in-situ remediation technology based on low toxic nano material for contaminated groundwater"

May 2012 - present: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Korea

Working on a NRF sponsored project titled "Development of core technology on integrated water technology"

April 2012 - Oct. 2012: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Korea

Working on a Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH) sponsored project titled “Evaluation of carbon reduction effect from Low Impact development (LID) applications”

April 2012 - present: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Korea

Working on a KEITI sponsored project titled "Development of selective/smart catalysis technology to completely transform nitrate/chlorinate compounds in groundwater".

Jan. 2012 - Dec. 2012: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Korea

Working on a KAIST-EEWS sponsored project titled "Geologic CO2 storage under deep sea with CH4-CO2 hydrate swapping process"

Dec. 2011 - present: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Korea

Working on a Ministry of Land infrastructure and Transport sponsored project titled “Development of urban planning support system for establishing material circulation framework”

July 2011 - present: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Korea

Working on a KAIST sponsored project titled "KAIST-DTU collaboration work for water resources technology development"

April 2011 - Mar. 2012: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Korea

Working on a Ministry of Environment sponsored project titled "The development of condition evaluation database standard and evaluation equipment of sewer"

April 2011 - Mar. 2014: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Korea

Working on a Ministry of Environment sponsored project titled "Development of in-situ nano/bio hybrid treatment method for remediation of nitrate and persistent organic compounds"

April 2011 - present: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Korea

Working on a Ministry of Environment sponsored project titled "In-situ sustainable green technology development for the remediation of mixed contaminants in military shooting ranges"

Sept. 2009 - Aug. 2012: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Korea

Working on a Ministry of Education & Science Technology sponsored project titled "Development of Greenhouse Gas Sequestration Technology at Shallow-sea Sediment Using Clathrate Hydrates"

Sept. 2009 - Aug. 2010: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Korea

Working on a Ministry of Education & Science Technology sponsored project titled "Redox controlling mechanism of radioactive elements and environmental remediation technology"

July. 2008 - Aug. 2010: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Korea

Working on a K-WATER sponsored project titled "CO2 reducing technology in water/wastewater treatment plants and analysis of potential CO2 reduction for future CDM business".

July. 2008 - Dec. 2010: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Korea

Working on a KAIST sponsored project (EEWS) titled "Greenhouse Gas Sequestration into the Subsea Sediments: The Development of Novel Technologies for Injection, Monitoring, Analysis, and Prediction for the Characteristics and Behavior, and Environmental Assessment".

Jun. 2008 -  Dec. 2008: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Korea

Working on a KAIST sponsored project (Undergraduate Research Participation program) titled "Greenhouse Gas Sequestration: CO2 Hydrate Formation and Storage at Sea Sediment".

April 2008 - Mar. 2011: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Korea

Working on a KMOE sponsored project titled "Development and design of the modules for various in situ subsurface remediation systems".

Jan. 2008 -  Jun. 2009: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Korea

Working on a KAIST sponsored project titled "On-site remediation of sea sediment and soil contaminated with crude oil at Tae-An".

Dec. 2007 - Nov. 2010: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Korea

Working on a KRF sponsored project titled "The identification of integrated reaction mechanism for the reductive degradation of chlorinated organic compounds by the interactions between iron reducing bacteria and iron-bearing soil minerals in natural system".  The purpose of this research is to investigate the reaction mechanism between iron reducing bacteria and iron bearing soil minerals in the reductive degradation of chlorinated organic compounds for developing economic and efficient soil remediation technology.

Nov. 2007 - Jun. 2008: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Korea

Working on a KMOCT sponsored project titled "The development of urban environmental regeneration technology (High-Tech Urban Development Program)".  The purpose of this research is to select or develop the best available technology in urban regeneration and establish the most efficient method of soil remediation for regenerating a city.

Feb. 2006 - Jan. 2009: Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Korea

Working on a KMOST sponsored project titled "Study on Geochemical and Mechanical Behavior of Gas Hydrate-bearing Sediments.  The purpose of this research is to explore the geochemical and mechanical behavior of hydrate-bearing sediments. Microscale characteristics are identified using chemical speciation model and geophysical method, and eventually the macroscale behavior of hydrate-bearing sediments are evaluated for economic operation of off-shore hydrate production.

April 2005 – Mar. 2007: Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Korea

Working on a KMOE sponsored project titled “Natural Attenuation of Groundwater and Soil Contaminated with Toxic Chemical Compounds by Natural Reductants (3rd yr, 2005)” by managing and advising a research group. The goals of this research are to characterize the natural attenuation of contaminated groundwater and soil by natural reductants and to provide basic knowledge for the development of remedial technologies.

Sept. 2003 – Mar. 2005: Environment & Process Technology Division, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul 130-650, Korea

-Worked on a KMOE sponsored project titled “Natural Attenuation of Groundwater and Soil Contaminated with Toxic Chemical Compounds by Natural Reductants (1st yr, 2004)” by managing and advising a research group.

-Worked on a KIST sponsored project titled “Development of Toxic Contaminant Control Technologies Using Catalytic Nano-particles” by managing and advising research groups involved in the project. The goal of this research is to develop efficient and cost effective technologies to remove and control toxic organic and inorganic contaminants using catalytic nano-particles.

-Worked on a KMOST sponsored project (i.e., National Research Laboratory project) titled “A Study for Smog Mechanism and Control Technology” by advising researchers involved in this project. The goals of the research are to identify the physico-chemical mechanisms of smog formation in Seoul, Korea and to provide basic understanding for the development of control technology.   

Jan. 2002 – Aug. 2003: Department of Chemistry and School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405

Worked on a National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored project titled “Reactions of Organic Compounds with Atmospheric Oxidants” by performing the tasks of experiments and data analysis. The goals of this research are to measure gas-phase rate constants for the oxidation of biogenic hydrocarbons and PAHs by OH radical using on-line mass spectrometry, to identify the effect of temperature on the reaction kinetics, and to investigate frontier molecular orbital correlations for better understanding of ozone (O3) formation in rural and urban troposphere. This appointment also included the responsibility of teaching graduate students in class (Environmental Chemistry) and advising their experiments and thesis.

Sept. 2001 – Dec. 2001: Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843

Worked on a Texas Hazardous Waste Research Center (THWRC) project titled “The Fate and Transport of Chlorinated Organics in the Reduced Soil Zone” by managing the research project and performing experiments and data analysis.

Sept. 1998 – Aug. 2001: Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843

Worked on a Gulf Coast Hazardous Substance Research Center (GCHSRC) sponsored project titled “Reductive Dechlorination of Chlorinated Organics by Soil Minerals and Soil” by performing the tasks of experiments and data analysis. The goal of the research was to characterize reductive dechlorination of chlorinated organics by soil minerals and soil to obtain fundamental knowledge about dechlorination kinetics and product distribution to develop remedial technologies.

Feb. 1998 – Aug. 1998: Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843

Worked on a GCHSRC sponsored project titled “Reductive Dechlorination of Chlorinated Organics in Degradative Solidification and Stabilization (ds/s)” by performing the experiments to evaluate the feasibility of ds/s for the reductive dechlorination of PCB, PCP, and o-DCB.

Sept. 1996 – Jan. 1998: Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843

Worked on an Amarillo National Resource Center for Plutonium (ANRCP: Pantex Plant) sponsored project titled “Chemical Models and Redox Chemistry of Chromium” by performing the tasks of experiments and data analysis. The goal of the research was to identify the redox reaction of chromium in Pantex soil and to measure intrinsic and total reductive capacities of Pantex soil for Cr(VI).

March 1994 – Feb. 1995:  School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

Worked on a Hyundai Engineering Co. sponsored project titled “Development of Advanced Biological Wastewater Treatment Process” by performing the tasks of experiments and data analysis.

Dec. 1994 - July 1995: Environmental Engineering Division, Korea Institute of Construction Technology (KICT), Seoul, Korea

Worked on a KMOE sponsored G7 project titled “Development of Advanced Water Treatment Process” by performing the tasks of experiments to evaluate AOP and by developing analytical techniques for the identification and quantification of disinfection by-products.