Education

B.S.: Department of Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (March, 1984 - February, 1988)

M.S.: Department of Chemical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Seoul, Korea (March, 1988 - February, 1990, Advisor: Ho Nam Chang)

Ph.D.: Department of Chemical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea (March, 1989 - August, 1993, Advisor: Ho Nam Chang)

Experience

September, 2001 - Present: Professor and Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Chungbuk, Korea

February, 2011 - January, 2012: Visiting Scholar, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

July, 2005 - January, 2006: Visiting Scholar, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, United States Department of Agriculture, Peoria, IL, USA

February, 2005 - June, 2005: Visiting Associate Professor, College of Dentistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

March, 1997 - March, 1998: Postdoctoral Fellow/Associate, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA (Advisor : Robert Langer)

March, 1994 - August, 2001: Associate and Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Konyang University, Nonsan, Chungnam, Korea

August, 1993 - February, 1994: Researcher, BioProcess Engineering Research Center, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea

Research Interests

Production of Biofuels, Bioplastics, and Biochemicals by High Cell Density Fermentation

Biosynthesis and Applications of Nanomaterials

Biodegradable Polymers

Google Scholar Citations: >12000, h-index: 51 (as of March 2024) 

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Ea4uh8AAAAAJ&hl=en 

Journal Editorial Board

Editorial Board Member, Open Journal of Polymer Chemistry (2012 - Present)

Editorial Board Member, BioMed Research International (2013 - Present)

Editor-in-Chief, Korean Society for Biotechnology and Bioengineering Journal (2013 - 2016)

Editorial Board Member, Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology (2014 - Present)

Associate Editor, Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering (2014 - 2020)

Associate Editor, International Journal of Biomedical Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2014 - Present)

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Microbial & Biochemical Technology (2017 - Present)

Editorial Board Member, The Open Chemical Engineering Journal (2017 - Present)

Editorial Advisory Board, Open Life Sciences (2018 - Present)

Editorial Board Member, Polymers (2019 - Present)

Associate Editor, BMC Biotechnology (2019 - Present)

Editorial Board Member, Malaysian Journal of Microbiology (2021 - Present)

Editorial Board Member, AIMS Bioengineering (2022 - Present)

Editorial Board Member, Sustainable Polymer & Energy (2022 - Present)