Professional Appointments

2024.03 – Present  Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Gyeongsang National University

2020.03 – 2024.02  Postdoctoral Researcher, The Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Melbourne (PI: Prof. Frank Caruso)

2018.07 – 2020.02  Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (PI: Prof. Mary B. Chan-Park)

2016.09 – 2018.06  Research Professor, Department of Chemistry and Nanoscience, Ewha Womans University, (PI: Prof. So-Jung Park) 

2014.03 – 2016.08  Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Chemistry and Nanoscience, Ewha Womans University  (PI: Prof. So-Jung Park)

Academic Education

2008.03 – 2014.02  Ph.D., Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Yonsei University (PI: Prof. Ik-Sung Ahn)

2004.03 – 2008.02  B.S., Chemical Engineering, Yonsei University

Awards & Honors

2020.02 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships, European Research Executive Agency (Relinquished) 

2016.10 Best Oral Award,  Ewha Chemistry and Nanoscience International Symposium

2014.01 Excellent Graduate Student Poster Award, Yonsei University (Brain Korea (BK) 21 Plus)

Representative Publications

• Chan-Jin Kim, Francesca Ercole, Jingqu Chen, Shuaijun Pan, Yi Ju, John F. Quinn, Frank Caruso "Macromolecular Engineering of Thermoresponsive Metal−Phenolic Networks", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 503–514. [Link]

• Chan-Jin Kim, Xiaole Hu, So-Jung Park “Multimodal Shape Transformation of Dual-Responsive DNA Block Copolymers”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 14941-14947. [Link]

• Chan-Jin Kim, Eirini Goudeli, Francesca Ercole, Yi Ju, Yuang Gu, Wanjun Xu, John F. Quinn, Frank Caruso “Particle Engineering via Supramolecular Assembly of Macroscopic Hydrophobic Building Blocks”, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2024, 136, e202315297. [Link]

• Chan-Jin Kim, Ji-eun Park, Xiaole Hu, Shine K. Albert, So-Jung Park “Peptide-Driven Shape Control of Low-Dimensional DNA Nanostructures”, ACS Nano 2020 14, 2276-2284. [Link]

• Yi Ju,† Chan-Jin Kim,† Frank Caruso (†Equally contributed) “Functional Ligand-Enabled Particle Assembly for Bio–Nano Interactions” Acc. Chem. Res. 2023, 56, 1826−1837. Featured as Supplementary Cover. [Link]