Professor

Work Experience                                                           

• Assistant Professor (2020.09~Present)
  School of Materials Science and Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Republic of Korea

• Postdoctoral Researcher (2017. 08~2020.08)
  Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, USA (Advisor: Prof. Jingguang G. Chen)

• Postdoctoral Researcher (2017. 03~2017.07)
  Applied Science Institute, KAIST, Republic of Korea (Advisor: Prof. Jang Wook Choi)

Education                                                                       

• Ph. D. (2013.03~2017. 02)
  Graduate School of EEWS (Advisor: Prof. Jang Wook Choi), GPA: 4.26/4.30
  KAIST, Republic of Korea
  Thesis: Development and Analysis of Novel Functional Materials for Energy and Gas Storage Applications

• M.S. (2011.09~2013. 02)
  Graduate School of EEWS (Advisor: Prof. Jang Wook Choi), GPA: 4.25/4.30
  KAIST, Republic of Korea
  Early Graduation in 3 Semesters
  Thesis: A Study on High Performance Lithium Ion Capacitors with Functionalized Graphene

• B.S. (2006.03~2011. 08)
  Department of Materials Science and Engineering, GPA: 4.20/4.50
  University of Seoul, Republic of Korea
  Summa Cum Laude, Early Graduation in 7 Semesters      

Awards and Honors

• Excellent Researcher Award, College of Engineering, KNU (2023)

• Outstanding Researcher Award, KNU (2023)

• Best Researcher Award, College of Engineering, KNU (2022)

• The Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Fostering Next Generation Researchers Program
  (학문후속세대양성사업-국외연수지원), National Research Foundation (2017)

• The Best Doctoral Thesis Award, KAIST (2017)

• The Best XAFS Study Award, KOSUA (2016)

• The Best Oral Presentation Award, KSIEC (2016)

• The Best Paper Award, KAIST Institute for the NanoCentury (KINC) (2015)

• The Best Poster Award, Korean Chemical Society (KCS) (2015)

• The Best among the Whole Graduate, Univ. of Seoul (2011)

• Early Graduation & Summa Cum Laude, MSE, Univ. of Seoul (2011)

• Full Scholarship in B.S. degree, Korea Student Aid Foundation (KOSAF) (2009-2011)

Professional Activities

• Conference Organizer: Symposium-II (Advanced Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage), MCARE2022, Busan (2022) 

Links

• Prof. Jang Wook Choi's group @ Seoul National University

• Prof. Jingguang Chen's group @ Columbia University

• Prof. Sung-Yoon Chung's group @ KAIST

• KNU, KNU YouTube, College of Engineering @ KNU,  EMSE@ KNU

• Crystallographic Calculator, Direct and Reciprocal Lattice Visualizer, d-spacing, XRD d-value calculator,  XCrySDen

Selected Publications

• Nature Communications, 2019, 10, 3724
  "Tuning the Activity and Selectivity of Electroreduction of CO2 to Synthesis Gas using Bimetallic Catalysts" 

• Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022, 144, 16131-16138
  "Metal-coordinated Phthalocyanines as Platform Molecules for Understanding Isolated Metal Sites in Electrochemical Reduction of CO2"

• Advanced Energy Materials, 2018, 8, 1703572
  “Superlattice Formation of Crystal Water in Layered Double Hydroxides for Long-term and Fast Operation of Aqueous Rechargeable Batteries” 

• Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020, 59, 3033
  “Electrochemical Conversion of CO2 to Syngas with Controllable CO/H2 Ratios over Co and Ni Single-Atom Catalysts” 

• Advanced Functional Materials, 2020, 30, 200007
  “Accelerating CO2 Electroreduction to CO over Pd Single-Atom Catalyst”

• Advanced Functional Materials, 2018, 28, 1804762
  “Understanding the Role of Functional Groups in Polymeric Binder for Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Reduction on Gold Nanoparticles” 

• Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2015, 137, 7210
  “Combined CO2-philicity and Ordered Meso-porosity for Highly Selective CO2 Capture at High Temperatures”