Professional Career

2026 - Present,  Associate Professor, 

2026 - Present,  Chair of the Nanotechnology Engineering

2023 - 2025,  Assistant Professor

Dept. of Nanotechnology Engineering, PKNU, South Korea

Dept. of Department of Smart Green Technology 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

2026    Early Career Researcher Award, Pukyong National University

2026    Miwon Young Scientist Award (20th)

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

Active membership:

• The Korean Chemical Society (KCS)

Materials Chemistry 

• The Korean Electrochemical Society (KECS)

Battery

• The Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (KSIEC)

Energy Storage & Conversion Division

Asia Branch 

Journal activities:  

2026 - 2028, Early Career Editorial Board, Energy & Environmental Materials, Wiley. (IF = 13.8, JCR = 10.2%) 

2026 - 2028, Youth Editorial Board Member, Journal of Magnesium and Alloys, Elsevier. (IF = 15.8, JCR = 1.5%)

2026, Guest Editors in Chief, Rare Metals, Wiley. (IF = 12.0, JCR = 2.6%)

2025 - 2026, Young Advisory Board Member, InfoMat, Wiley. (IF = 22.3, JCR = 3.6%)

Journal peer reviewer:  

Nature Nanotech., Nature Energy, Nature Commun., 

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

J. Am. Chem. Soc., ACS Energy Lett., ACS Nano, Chem. Mater., Inorg. Chem., Cryst. Growth Des. 

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

Selected Publications

• "Hydration-Mediated Mn2+/H+ Storage in Tunnel-Type MnV2O6·4H2O as High-Voltage and Durable Aqueous Mn Metal Batteries"

Jangwook Pyun, Hyeongseok Lee, Sangki Lee, Seunghyeop Baek, Munseok S. Chae*

Adv. Funct. Mater., 36(47), e75599, (2026)

• "Proton-Dominant Charge Storage in Layered H2V3O8 for Mn2+/H+ Hybrid Aqueous Batteries"

Jangwook Pyun, Hyeonjun Lee, Yeonu Lee, Sangki Lee, Seung-Tae Hong, Doron Aurbach*, Munseok S. Chae* 

Energy Storage Mater., 84, 104843, (2026)

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

Hyeju Kwon†, Sangki Lee†, Hyungjin Lee, Amey Nimkar, Jangwook Pyun, Seung-Tae Hong, Munseok S. Chae*

Energy Storage Mater., 80, 104406, (2025)

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

Hyungjin Lee, Amey Nimkar, Netanel Shpigel*, Daniel Sharon, Seung-Tae Hong, Doron Aurbach*, Munseok S. Chae*

ACS Energy Lett., 9(11), 5627-5634, (2024)

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

Munseok S. Chae*, Amey Nimkar, Netanel Shpigel, Yosef Gofer, Doron Aurbach*

ACS Energy Lett., 6(8), 2659-2665, (2021)

Lectures

Solid State Chemistry   (3-1)

Analytical Chem.   (3-2)

Instrumental Analysis   (4-1)

Crystallography,   (4-2)