PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Junghwan KIM

｜Assistant professor

｜Graduate school of semiconductor materials and devices engineering

& department of material science and engineering

｜Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)

｜Room 401-10, Building 102

｜j.kim@unist.ac.kr

Curriculum Vitae

2025.01~, 한국정보디스플레이학회 사업이사 (Link!)

2024.10~, UNIST 반도체특성화대학사업단 부단장 (Link!)

2023.01~, Journal of Information Display Associate Editor

2023.01~, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Semiconductor Materials and Devices Engineering, UNIST

2023.01~, Specially Appointed Associate Professor, MDX research center for Element Strategy, Tokyo Institute of Technology

2016.04~2022.12, Assistant Professor, MDX research center for Element Strategy, Tokyo Institute of Technology

2021.10~, PRESTO Researcher, JST

2021.12~, Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, POSTECH

2019.04~2021.03, Visiting Researcher, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)

Education

2014.04~2016.03, Innovative and Engineered Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Doctor of Engineering)

2012.10~2014.03, Innovative and Engineered Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Master of Engineering)

2005.03~2012.08, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ajou University (Bachelor of Engineering)

Award

2022.04 Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, The Young Scientists' Award

2020. 06 Tokyo Tech Challenging Research Award

2017.02 Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists

2016.09 Young Scientist Award, The Japan Society of Applied Physics

Junghwan KIM is an assistant professor in the graduate school of semiconductor materials and devices engineering and in the department of material science and engineering at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST).

He has been dedicated mainly to metal oxide and halide materials and related devices, such as thin-film transistors and light-emitting diodes, over the last decade. He believes a breakthrough can be made by breaking tradeoff relations, such as performance versus lifetime and performance versus stability. For that, he has used various advanced material characterization techniques combined with computational calculations and device simulation. Based on this background, he conducted many industrial collaborative studies with AGC, LG Display, Mitsubishi Chemical, Panasonic, Samsung Electronics, etc., and performed Japanese national projects as a principal investigator. He won the young scientists’ awards from the Inoue Foundation for Science (2017) and MEXT (2022).

By joining UNIST, he plans to apply his background to future electronics, such as AI devices and next-generation memory applications.