Education

Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea (2021)

B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea (2014)

Professional Experience

• Assistant Professor (2025 - present)
  Department of Energy Engineering, Korea Institute of Energy Technology (KENTECH), Korea

• Postdoctoral Researcher (2022 - 2025)
  Chemistry and Nanoscience Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), CO, USA

• Postdoctoral Researcher (2021 - 2022)
  Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Yonsei University, Korea

Honors and Awards

• NREL Postdoctoral Researcher Proposal Award (2025)

• Top 10 Nanotechnologies Award (Nano Convergence Exhibition, Korea) (2022)
  Biomimetic hydrogel protection technology to enhance the durability of photoelectrodes for green hydrogen production
  (J. Moon, J. Tan)

• National R&D Excellent Achievements Top 100 (Energy & Environment / Grand Prize) (2021)
  Hybrid tandem device–based solar water splitting technology for green hydrogen production
  (J. H. Moon, J. M. Park, W. S. Yang, H. C. Kwon, J. Tan, H. S. Lee, J. W. Lee) 

• Yang-Song Researcher Award, Korean Ceramic Society  (2021)

• Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award, Yonsei University (2020)

Selected Publications

• Stable water splitting using photoelectrodes with a cryogelated overlayer, Nature Communications, 2024, 15, 1495.

• Hydrogel Protection Strategy to Stabilize Water-Splitting Photoelectrodes, Nature Energy, 2022, 7, 537-547.

• Facile morphology control strategy to enhance charge separation efficiency of Mo:BiVO4 photoanodes for efficient photoelectrochemical water splitting, Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022, 430, 133061.

• Surface restoration of polycrystalline Sb2Se3 thin films by conjugated molecules enabling high-performance photocathodes for photoelectrochemical water splitting, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2021, 286, 119890.

• Fullerene as a photo-electron transfer promoter enabling stable TiO2-protected Sb2Se3 photocathodes for photoelectrochemical water splitting, Advanced Energy Materials, 2019, 9, 1900179.