PROFESSOR

Education & Career

Kumoh National Institute of Technology (kit)

• Department Chair, Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering (2024~2025)

• Associate Professor, Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering (2023~current)

• Assistant Professor, Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering (2018~2023)

Tufts University, USA

• Visiting Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering (2023~2024) (Host: Prof. Fiorenzo G. Omenetto)

KAIST

• Research Professor, Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering  (2017~2018)

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Applied Science Research Institute (2016~2017)

MIT, USA

• Postdoctoral Associate, Dept. of Chemical Engineering (2015~2016) (Advisor: Prof. Patrick S. Doyle)

KAIST

• Ph.D., Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering (2015) (Advisor: Prof. Seokwoo Jeon)

• M.S., Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering (2011)

Sungkyunkwan University

• B.S., Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering (2009)

Selected Awards & Academic Activities

한국재료학회 편집이사 (2026~)

2024 MRS Fall Meeting Session Organizer (SB11-Biological and Bioinspired Polymers)

Rising Stars 30 selected by the Korean Optical Society (2020) (Category : Lithography)

Grand Prize Winner of the Dow Chemical Korea Award (2014)

Silver & Bronze Prize Winner of the Samsung HumanTech Paper Award (2011, 2012)

The 1st cohort of the Global PhD Fellowship Program funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea (2011~2014)

Invited speaker at various conferences (Next Generation Lithography, Korea Society of Laser Processing, Polymer Society of Korea, etc.)

Invited guest editor for Applied Sciences (Special Issue : 3D nanostructured Materials & Devices)

Reviewer for scientific journals (Nature Comm., Adv. Mater., Adv. Opt. Mater., ACS Nano, etc.)