Principal Investigator
Haesung Jung, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Changwon National University
Email: haesung.jung@changwon.ac.kr
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2025.4–present Changwon National University, Changwon, Gyeongsangnamdo, Republic of Korea
Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering
2020.9–2025.3 Changwon National University, Changwon, Gyeongsangnamdo, Republic of Korea
Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering
2018.2–2020.8 Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Postdoctoral Fellow in School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Advisor: Prof. Yuanzhi Tang
EDUCATION
Washington University in St. Louis, Ph.D. in Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering (2017)
Advisor: Prof. Young-Shin Jun
Dissertation title: Abiotic- and Biotic-Formation of Manganese Oxides and Their Fate in Environmental Systems (completed on Jan. 2, 2018)
University of Seoul, M.S. in Energy and Environmental System Engineering (2012)
Advisor: Prof. Jung Hyeun Kim
Thesis title: Obtaining New Expressions for the Slip Correction Factor by Measuring Electrical Mobility of Nanoparticles
University of Seoul, B.S. in Chemical Engineering (2010)
Postdoctoral researcher
Dr. Sunghoon Son
Project: Sustainable resource recovery using the principles of electrochemistry
Graduate student
Seongryeong Kim
Project: Bioleaching of Cathodes in Spent Li-ion Batteries
Graduate student
Yeonseo Jang
Project: Sustainable resource recovery
Research associate
Jaeyeong Heo
Project: Metal recovery from spent LIBs, Electrochemistry of Manganese
Thesis title: Formation of t-MnO2 via tailoring oxidation state of manganese
Alumni
Junyeong Choi, M.S. (2025.02)
Thesis title: Photocatalytic oxidation of Mn2+(aq) using hematite: Implication for environmental redox cycles