EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Dept. of Mater. Sci. & Eng., KAIST, Daejeon, Korea (Mar. 1994 ~ Aug. 1998)

– Thesis Topic: Synthesis of perovskite oxide powders under hydrothermal conditions

– Advisor: Prof. Do Kyung Kim

Ms.D. in Dept. of Inorganic Materials, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea (Mar. 1992~Feb. 1994)

– Thesis Topic: synthesis of monosized spherical SiC, Si3N4, and SiC/Si3N4 composite powders from gel powders derived from sol-gel process

– Advisor: Prof. Jong Hee Kim

CAREER

Professor, SKKU, Suwon, Korea (Mar. 2015~Present)

Vice President, SAIT, Suwon, Korea (Jan. 2011~Feb. 2015)

Director of Graphene Center, SAIT, Suwon, Korea (Jan. 2011~Aug. 2013)

Director of Multi-Functional Device Group, SAIT, Suwon, Korea (May. 2008~Dec. 2010)

Project Manager, SAIT, Suwon, Korea (Jan. 2002~May. 2008)

Principal Researcher, SAIT, Suwon, Korea (Dec.1999~Dec. 2001)

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Ames lab, Iowa, US (Oct. 1998~Sept.1999)

HONOR & AWARDS

2018 World 1% Highly Cited Researchers (Nov. 2018), Clarivate Analytics

TUBITAK MRC Research Award for Outstanding Contributions to Science and Engineering of Two Dimension (2016), Phantoms Foundation

Research Achievement Award - Development of new 2D materials for bendable mobile touch screen (Jul. 2014), Samsung Electronics

SAMSUNG Best Paper Award - Gold Award (1st rank in materials divisions), Development of large-area graphene growth for electronic applications (2009), Samsung Electronics

World Best Paper Award - Large-scale pattern growth of graphene films for stretchable transparent electrodes, Nature, 457, 706 (2009), Samsung Electronics

LECTURES

Convergence Materials Seminar (융복합소재해외석학세미나)

Materials Interface Science (재료계면과학) 

Thermodynamics I (재료열역학)

Nano Advanced Materials ( 나노신소재) 

Team Research Project (팀연구프로젝트1, 2) 

Experiments of Materials Processing (신소재공정실험)