Principal Investigator

Professional Experience

03/2024 - present, Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kangwon National University (KNU) 

08/2020 - 02/2024, Research Assistant Professor, School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, Korea (Supervisor: Prof. Hyun-Wook Lee)

03/2015 - 05/2020, Research Fellow, Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials (CMCM), Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Ulsan, Korea (Supervisor: Prof. Rodney S. Ruoff)

01/2014 - 01/2015, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, IL, USA (Supervisor: Prof. Mark C. Hersam)

09/2013 - 12/2013, Postdoctoral researcher, Applied Science Research Institute, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea (Supervisor: Prof. Soon Hyung Hong)

Education

02/2007 - 08/2013, Ph. D. in Material Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea

Dissertation: Fabrication Processes of Carbon Nanomaterial Composites and Their Applications for Conductive Materials in Organic Solar Cells (Supervisors: Prof. Soon Hyung Hong and Prof. Seokwoo Jeon)

03/2000 - 02/2007, B.S. in Material Chemistry and Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea

Honor & Award

11/08/2022, Selected as the Top 100 National Research and Development Projects 2022 in Korea, “Creation of the most perfect graphene”, from the Ministry of Science and ICT of Korea 

10/04/2019, Selected as the Top 100 National Research and Development Projects 2019 in Korea, “Single crystal metal foil: large and inexpensive”, from the Ministry of Science and ICT of Korea 

11/14/2013, Postdoctoral Overseas Fellowship from the National Research Foundation of Korea 

04/11/2008, Best poster award in Spring Meeting of Korean Powder Metallurgy Institute 

Fund (as PI)

03/2021 ~ 02/2026, "Synthesis of large-area single crystal graphene-based hybrid materials and their applications for opto-electronics", Sejong Science Fellowship Program, supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT), 120 million KRW per year.

Technology Transfer

2021/09/29,  Non-exclusive technology transfer to a company (STANDARD GRAPHENE) in Korea