• Feb. 2026 - Current       Assistant Professor in Department of Energy Engineering, KENTECH, Korea

• Mar. 2024 - Jan. 2026        Postdoctoral Researcher in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, UCLA, USA   (Supervisor: Prof. Yuzhang Li)

• Mar. 2023 - Feb. 2024        Postdoctoral Researcher in School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, UNIST, Korea   (Supervisor: Prof. Hyun-Wook Lee)

• Mar. 2016  - Aug. 2016        Researcher in Department of Energy and Chemical Engineering, UNIST, Korea   (Supervisor: Prof. Hyun-Wook Lee)

EDUCATIONS

• Sep. 2016 - Feb. 2023         Ph. D. in School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, UNIST, Korea   (Supervisor: Prof. Hyun-Wook Lee)

• Mar. 2012 - Feb. 2016          B.S. in School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, UNIST, Korea

• Double Major in (1) Energy Engineering and (2) Materials Science Engineering)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Cathodes for Li-/Na-ion Batteries, Lithium Metal Batteries, Advanced Electrode Engineering, Cell Design & Safety Evaluation, State-of-the-Art Analysis Tools

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Jin Koo Kim§, Min-Ho Kim§, Yuzhang Li* et al., "Suppressed calendar aging losses via dynamic interfaces in metal anodes," Joule, Accepted.

• Myeongjun Choi§, Jeongwoo Seo§, Min-Ho Kim§,*, Hyun-Wook Lee* et al., "Pre-Disordering for Preserving Transition Metal-Oxygen Covalency in Lithium-Rich Layered Oxide Cathodes," ACS Energy Letters 11 (2), 2324-2333 (2026).

• Min-Ho Kim§, Hyun-Wook Lee* et al., "Microstructural Evolution Dynamics in Rapid Joule Heating Densification of High-Nickel Cathodes," Advanced Materials 37 (45), e08602 (2025).

• Min-Ho Kim§, Hyun-Wook Lee* et al., "Metal-to-Metal Charge Transfer for Stabilizing High-Voltage Redox in Lithium-Rich Layered Oxide Cathodes," Science Advances 11 (8), eadt0232 (2025).

• Min-Ho Kim§, Hyun-Wook Lee* et al., "Horizontal lithium growth driven by surface dynamics on single crystal Cu(111) foil," Energy & Environmental Science 17 (18), 6521-6532 (2024).

• Min-Ho Kim§, Hyun-Wook Lee* et al., "Mitigating Electrode-Level Heterogeneity Using Phosphorus Nanolayers on Graphite for Fast-Charging Batteries," ACS Energy Letters 8 (9), 3962-3970 (2023).

• Min-Ho Kim§, Hyun-Wook Lee* et al., "Design Principles for Fluorinated Interphase Evolution via Conversion-Type Alloying Processes for Anti-corrosive Lithium Metal Anodes," Nano Letters 23 (8), 3582-3591 (2023).

• Juyoung Kim§, Min-Ho Kim§, Hyun-Wook Lee* et al., "Unveiling the Role of Electrode-Level Heterogeneity Alleviated in Silicon-Graphite Electrode Under Operando Microscopy," Energy Storage Materials 57, 269-276 (2023).

• Wooseok Go§, Min-Ho Kim§, Hyun-Wook Lee* et al., "Nanocrevasse-rich carbon fibers for stable lithium and sodium metal anodes," Nano Letters 19 (3), 1504-1511 (2019).

AWARDS / HONORS

• The 2nd Ecopro Scholarship Award, Ecopro (Jun. 2021)

• Outstanding Graduate Student Award, UNIST (2019)

• Outstanding Poster Award, Fall meeting of The Korean Battery Society, Busan, Korea (Nov. 2018)

• National Scholarship, UNIST (2012 - 2016)

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES