Principal Investigator

                                          Jae Wung Bae (배재웅), Ph.D.

Education

• Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, POSTECH (2019. 08) (Advisor: Prof. Hyong Seop Kim)

• B.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Aerospace University (2015. 02)

Experience

• Associate Professor (2025. 09 - Present)

• Assistant Professor (2022. 03 - 2025. 08)

      Department of Metallurgical Engineering, Pukyong National University

• Postdoctoral Fellow (2020. 09 - 2022. 01) (Advisor: Prof. Dierk Raabe, Dr. Dirk Ponge)

      Department of Microstructure Physics and Alloy Design, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung, Germany

•  Postdoctoral Researcher (2019. 09 - 2020. 08)

       Center for High Entropy Alloys, POSTECH

Honor & Awards

• 2026. 04 : Rising scientist awards, The Korean Institute of Metals and Materials

• 2025. 12 : Good reviewer award, Metals and Materials International

• 2025. 10 : POSCO Science Fellowship, POSCO TJ Park Foundation

• 2024. 12 : Good reviewer award, Metals and Materials International

• 2023. 12 : Good reviewer award, Metals and Materials International

• 2022. 12 : Good reviewer award, Metals and Materials International

• 2020. 09 : Max-Planck Fellowship, Max-Planck-Sosciety

• 2020. 02 : Acta Student Awards, Acta Materialia

• 2019. 12 : SeAH Haeam Post-Doc. Scholarship, SeAH Haeam Foundation

• 2018. 12 : Top scholarly monographys prize of the year in Dept. of MSE, POSTECH

• 2018. 12 : Best Poster Award, The 2nd International Conference on High-Entropy Materials (ICHEM)

• 2015. 10 : Best Poster Award, Korean Institute of Metals and Materials Meeting 

Activity

• Local Organizing Committee and Session Organizer, MMM 12 (2026. 11)

• Local Organizing Committee, RQ 2026 (2026. 08)

• Invited Talk, PRICM 12 (2026. 08)

• Vice General Secretary, iHSM3 (2026. 07)

• 대한금속·재료학회 총무간사 (2026. 01 - Present) 

• Editorial Board Member, Metals and Materials International (2026.  01 - Present)

• 대한금속·재료학회 적층제조 및 분말재료분과 간사위원 (2024. 01 - Present)

• 대한금속·재료학회 재료강도분과 간사위원 (2024. 01 - Present)

• Editorial Board Member, Scientific Reports (2024. 11 - Present)

• 대한금속·재료학회 2024년도 '소재혁신 신진연구자' 선정 (2024. 02)

• 한국분말재료학회 편집간사 (2024. 01 - 2025. 12)

• Associate Editor, Journal of Powder Materials (2024. 01 - 2025. 12)

• Local Organizing Committee and Invited Talk, PRICM 11 (2023. 11) 

• Editorial Board Member, Materials (2022. 03 - Present)

• Guest Editor of Special Issue "High-Entropy Alloys for Extreme Environments", Metals (2021. 03 - 2021. 12)

• Reviewer Board Member, Symmetry (2021.01 - Present)

• 대한금속·재료학회 고엔트로피합금분과 간사위원 (2020. 01 -Present)

• Review activities for SCI(E) journals, including Acta Materialia, Advanced Healthcare Materials, Advanced Science, Intermetallics, International Journal of Plasticity, International Journal of Refractory & Hard Materials, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Journal of Materials Research and Technology, Journal of Materials Science & Technology, Journal of Materials Science, Materialia, Materials Characterization, Materials Science and Engineering: A, Metals and Materials International, Nature, Nature Communications, Scripta Materialia, and Steel Research International.