Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)
E-mail: sanghan@gist.ac.kr
Office: +82-62-715-2314
Room: MSE #501
2007 ~ 2012
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States. Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engineering (Advisor : Prof. Chang-Beom Eom)
2007 ~ 2009
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States. M.S. in Materials Science & Engineering (Advisor : Prof. Chang-Beom Eom)
2004 ~ 2006
Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Korea. M.S. in Materials Science & Engineering (Advisor : Prof. Jong-Lam Lee)
1997 ~ 2004
Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Korea. B.S. in Materials Science & Engineering
09/2021 ~ present
Professor, Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology (GIST)
03/2018 ~ 08/2021
Associate Professor, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology (GIST)
09/2013 ~ 02/2018
Assistant Professor, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology (GIST)
09/2012 ~ 08/2013
Postdoctoral Scholar, Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, UW-Madison
06/2008 ~ 08/2008
Visiting Researcher, Dept. of Physics, Penn State University
01/2007 ~ 08/2007
Researcher, Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, POSTECH
10/1998 ~ 04/2001
Mandatory Military Service in R.O.K Air Force
Yejoon Kim, ~ Sanghan Lee*, Bias-Free Solar Upcycling of Nitrate and Glycerol with Highly Efficient and Durable Organic Semiconductor-Based Photoelectrodes, Advanced Materials (2025), DOI: 10.1002/adma.202507698 (IF: 27.4)
Yoonsung Jung+, Seunghwan Kim+, ~ Sanghan Lee*, Long-Term Selective Photoelectrochemical Glycerol Oxidation via Oxygen Vacancy Modulated Tungsten Oxide with Self-Healing, Small (2024), DOI: 10.1002/smll.202409082 (IF: 13.0)
Yoon Jung Lee‡, Eun Seok Choi‡, Ji Hyun Baek‡, ~ Sanghan Lee*, and Ho Won Jang*, Memristive Artificial Synapses based on Brownmillerite for Endurable Weight Modulation, Small (2024), DOI: 10.1002/smll.202405749 (IF: 13.0)
Haejin Jang‡, Yejoon Kim‡, ~ Sanghan Lee*, Enhancing BiVO4 Photoanode Performance by Insertion of an Epitaxial BiFeO3 Ferroelectric Layer, Journal of Energy Chemistry 89 (2024) 71–78 (IF: 14.0)
Hojoong Choi,† Sehun Seo,† ~ Heejoo Kim,* and Sanghan Lee*, Organometal Halide Perovskite-Based Photoelectrochemical Module Systems for Scalable Unassisted Solar Water Splitting, Advanced Science (2023), 10, Issue 33, 2303106 (IF: 15.1)
Hojoong Choi,† Young Yun Kim,† Sehun Seo,† ~ Jangwon Seo,* and Sanghan Lee*, Suppression of Undesired Losses in Organometal Halide Perovskite-Based Photoanodes for Efficient Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting, Advanced Energy Materials (2023) 13, Issue 31, 2300951 (IF : 27.8)
Yoon Jung Lee,† Kootak Hong,† Kyeongho Na, Jiwoong Yang, ~, Sanghan Lee,* and Ho Won Jang*, Nonvolatile Control of Metal–Insulator Transition in VO2 by Ferroelectric Gating, Advanced Materials (2022) 34, 2203097 (IF : 32.086)
Ju-Hyeon Kim,† Sehun Seo,† Jong-Hoon Lee,† ~, Sanghan Lee*, and Kwanghee Lee*, Efficient and stable perovskite-based photocathode for photoelectrochemical hydrogen production, Advanced Functional Materials (2021), 2008277 (IF : 18.808)
Jongmin Lee,† Hongji Yoon,† ~, Sanghan Lee*, Template Engineering of CuBi2O4 Single-crystal Thin Film Photocathodes, Small (2020),16, 2002429 (IF : 11.459)
Sehun Seo,† Heesung Noh,† ~, Sanghan Lee*, Artificially engineered nanostrain in FeSexTe1-x superconductor thin film for enhancing supercurrent, NPG Asia Materials, (2020), 12, 7 (IF : 8.131)
Hyunji An,† Hyo Jin Hong,† ~, Bong-Joong Kim*, Chung Wung Bark*, and Sanghan Lee*, Reversible magnetoelectric switching in multiferroic three-dimensional nanocup heterostructure films, NPG Asia Materials, (2019), 11, 68 (IF : 8.052)
Sehun Seo, ~, Sanghan Lee*, Direct In situ Growth of Centimeter-scale Multi-heterojunction MoS2/WS2/WSe2 Thin Film Catalyst For Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Evolution, Advanced Science, (2019), 6, 13, 1900301 (IF : 15.804)
Jaesun Song, ~, Sanghan Lee*, Tailoring crystallographic orientations to substantially enhance charge separation efficiency in anisotropic BiVO4 photoanodes, ACS Catalysis, (2018), 8, 5952-5962 (IF : 11.384) (cited >100 times)
Jaesun Song, ~, Ho Won Jang*, Sanghan Lee*, Domain-engineered BiFeO3 thin film photoanodes for highly enhanced ferroelectric solar water splitting, Nano Research 11, issue2, pp642-655 (2018) (IF : 7.994) (cited >100 times)
Sanghan Lee et al., Artificially engineered superlattices of pnictide superconductors, Nature Materials, 12, 392-396, (2013) (IF : 36.425)
Sanghan Lee et al., Template engineering of Co-doped BaFe2As2 single-crystal thin films, Nature Materials, 9, 397-402 (2010) (IF : 29.897)
2025~ GIST 신소재공학과 전공책임교수
2024~ 한국센서학회 이사
2023~2025 GIST 차세대에너지연구소장
2023~ 태양광발전학회 평의원
2023 GIST 신소재공학부 부학부장
2021~ 한국재료학회 평의원
2021~ 한국재료학회 이사
2021~ 소재혁신선도본부 위원
2020~2022 한국연구재단 국책연구본부 RB (Review Board)
2017, 2020 한국세라믹학회 편집운영이사
2019~2023 미래소재디스커버리 사업 단장 (전기장제어소재연구단)
2018~2019 대한금속재료학회 평의원
2018~ 대한금속재료학회 나노융합소재분과 / 에너지재료분과 위원
2017~ 유전체연구회 학술위원
굿리뷰어상, 2024, 대한금속재료학회
에너지 산업 발전 유공 광주광역시장 표창, 2024, 광주광역시
나노·소재 연구개발 유공 장관표창, 2024, 과기정통부
공로상 (Achievement award) , 2022, GIST
Best Teaching Award, 2019, GIST
Gold winner of Graduate Student Award at 2012 MRS (Materials Research Society) Spring Meeting
~2026/12 미래수소원천기술 (NRF) : 총괄책임
~2030/02 중견 (NRF) : 책임
~2028/02 ERC (NRF) : 공동
~2025/12 GIST-MIT 인공지능국제협력사업 (GRI) : 공동
~2025/12 포스코 산학 : 공동
~2023/08 미래소재디스커버리사업 (NRF) : 총괄책임