Professional Career

2023 - 2025,  Assistant Professor

Dept. of Nanotechnology Engineering, PKNU, South Korea

2021 - 2023,  Senior research engineer

Adv. Battery Devel. Team, Research Center, Hyundai Motor Company

2019 - 2020,  Postdoctoral Fellow 

Bar-Ilan Univ., Israel 

(Prof. Doron Aurbach Group) - website,  google scholar

Education

2014 - 2019,   Ph.D. 

DGIST, South Korea

(Prof. Seung-Tae Hong Group)​​ - website,  google scholar

​2010 - 2014,   B.S. 

Kyungpook Nat. Univ., South Korea

Awards & Honors

2018    Excellent Research Award 2018, DGIST

2017    Best Poster Award, APGC2017

2017    Poster Award, The Korean Chemical Society

2015    Research Innovation Award, DGIST

2014    Poster Award, LBNL-DGIST Future Energy Materials Workshop

2013    Poster Award(1), KIEEME Annual Summer Conference

2013    Poster Award(2), KIEEME Annual Summer Conference

Scholarly Activities

Activities:  

2025 ~   Young Advisory Board Member of InfoMat

Journal peer reviewer:  

Nature Nanotech., Nature Energy, Nature Commun., 

Angew. Chem., Adv. Mater., Adv. Energy Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater., Small 

J. Am. Chem. Soc., ACS Energy Lett., ACS Nano, 

Energy Storage Mater., Nano Energy, eTransportation, Chem. Eng. J., Compos. Pt. B-Eng., J. Magnes. Alloy, etc. 

Selected Publications

• "NASICON-Type NaV2(PO4)3 as High-Voltage and Stable Cathode Materials for Manganese Metal Batteries"

Energy Storage Materials (2025) _ Corresponding author

• "π-electrons assisted charge storage in fused-rings aromatic carbonyl electrodes for aqueous manganese-ion batteries"

ACS Energy Letters (2024) _ Corresponding author

• "High Performance Aqueous and Nonaqueous Ca-ion Cathodes based on Fused-ring Aromatic Carbonyl Compounds"

ACS Energy Letters (2021) _ Corresponding author

•  "Anomalous Sodium Storage Behavior in Al/F Dual-Doped P2-Type Sodium Manganese Oxide Cathode for Sodium-Ion Batteries" 

Advanced Energy Materials (2020) _ First author

•  "Vacancy-Driven High Rate Capabilities in Calcium-Doped Na0.4MnO2 Cathode for Aqueous Sodium-Ion Batteries"

Advanced Energy Materials (2020) _ First author

• "The Sodium Storage Mechanism in Tunnel-type Na0.44MnO2 Cathodes and the Way to Ensure their Durable Operation"

Advanced Energy Materials (2020) _ First author

Lectures

General Chem.,   (1-1, Undergraduate School)

Materials Sci. & Eng.,   (2-1, Undergraduate School)

Solid State Chemistry   (3-1, Undergraduate School)

Analytical Chem.   (3-2, Undergraduate School)

Instrumental Analysis   (4-1, Undergraduate School)

Crystallography,   (4-2, Undergraduate School)

Adv. Instrumental Analysis 1 and 2    (Graduate School)

Adv. Analytical Chem. (Graduate School)

Post-LIBs   (Graduate School)