EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS 

09.2024 – current Assistant professor Materials Science and engineering, Kangwon National University, Korea 

06.2021 – 08.2024 Postdoctoral researcher Materials Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW), NSW, Australia 

03.2020 – 05.2021 Postdoctoral researcher School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, UNIST, Ulsan, Korea 

03.2013 – 02.2020 M.S. & Ph.D. combined course School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, UNIST, Ulsan, Korea 

Dissertation: Activated catalysis of the oxygen reduction reaction on heterogeneous catalysts with secondary-amine-conjugated polymers 

Advisor: Prof. Hyun-Kon Song 

08.2015 – 01.2016 Visiting scholar Material science, Northwestern University (NU), Evanston, IL, US 

01.2015 – 07.2015 Visiting scholar Material science, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, US 

Advisor: Prof. Sossina M. Haile 

03.2009 – 02.2012 B.S. Department of Energy and Chemical Engineering, UNIST, Korea Advisor: Prof. Guntae Kim 

GRANTS AND AWARDS

03.2013 – 02.2019 UNISTAR. Fellowship from UNIST (~15,000 USD/year) – Only for 4 graduate students at UNIST per year 

11.2017 Outstanding Graduate Student Award from UNIST Polypyrrole-assisted oxygen electrocatalysis on perovskite oxides 

02.2017 Samsung Human-Tech Paper Award: Silver (7,000 USD) – 2nd in Energy & Environmental Science 

12.2015 Outstanding Graduate Student Award from UNIST Conductivity-Dependent Completion of Oxygen Reduction on Oxide Catalysts 

10.2024 

03.2022 – current B.S. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kangwon National University 

10.2024 

03.2022 – current B.S. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kangwon National University 

12.2024 

03.2020 – current B.S. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kangwon National University 

12.2024 

03.2020 – current B.S. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kangwon National University 

12.2024 

03.2024 – current B.S. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kangwon National University 

03.2025 

03.2024 – current B.S. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kangwon National University