Principal Investigator

RESEARCH CAREERS

• Kyungpook National University, Korea (2025 - present)

       Associate Professor, School of Energy Engineering

• Kyungpook National University, Korea (2020 - 2025)

       Assistant / Associate Professor, Department of Hydrogen & Renewable Energy

• Imperial College London, United Kingdom (2015 - 2020) 

       Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemistry (Advisor: Prof. James R. Durrant)

• Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea (2014 - 2015)

       BK21 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Chan Eon Park) 

EDUCATION

• Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea (2009-2014)

       Ph.D. in Department of Chemical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Chan Eon Park) 

• Kyungpook National University, Korea (2004 - 2009)

       B.S. in Department of Polymer Science & Engineering

 HONOR & AWARDS

• Outstanding Research Professor, Qualitative Performance (JCR 5%), Kyungpook Nat’l University (2023, 2025)

• Outstanding Research Professor, Qualitative Performance (JCR 1%), Kyungpook Nat’l University (2022)

• Postdoctoral fellowship by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) (2018.09 - 2019.08)

• International Travel Grant - British Council (2019.02)

• Finalist, Shortlisted Participants, Asian Deans’ Forum 2018, the rising stars women in engineering workshop, HKUST, Hong Kong (2018.08)

• International Travel Grant - Royal Society of Chemistry (2016.11)

• Best Poster Award - The 24th Synchrotron Radiation User's Workshop & KOSUA Meeting (2012.11)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• 한국고분자학회, 국제협력위원회 위원 (2026)

• 한국화학공학회, 평의원 (2026-2027)

• IUPAC-PSK, Programme committee (2026)

• 한국화학공학회, 입자기술 부문위원회, 학술간사 (2025) 

• KJF-ICOMEP2024, Local committee (2023-2024)

• 한국태양광발전학회, 평의원 (2023)

• ICAMD2023, Programme committee (2023)

• 한국광과학회, 학술위원 (2022 - 2023)

• 한국고분자학회, 고분자 과학과 기술, 편집위원 (2021 - 2023)

• KJF-ICOMEP2022, Local committee (2021-2022)