Education

Ph.D. (2014.02)

• SKKU Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology (SAINT), Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea. Thesis: Synthesis and Application of Group-IV Semiconductor NWs, Graphene and its Hybrid Structures. Advisor : Prof. Dongmok Whang

B.S. (2009.02)

• Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea.

Career

• Center for Stacked van der Waals Semiconductors,  Director  (2025-current)

• Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering, SKKU, Associate Professor (2025-current)

• SKKU Advanced Institute of NanoTechnology (SAINT), SKKU, Joint Faculty Member, (2025-current)

• Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials, National University of Singapore, Visiting Research Associate Professor (2024-current).

• Dept. Materials Science and Engineering and Dept. Energy Systems Research, Ajou University, Associate Professor (2021-2025).

• Institute of Advanced Composite Materials, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Visiting Scholar (2023-2024). 

• Dept. Materials Science and Engineering and Dept. Energy Systems Research, Ajou University, Assistant Professor (2017-2021). 

• National Graphene Institute (NGI), the University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. Visiting Researcher  Advisor: Prof. K. S. Novoselov 2010 Nobel laureate (2015-2017). 

• SKKU Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology, SKKU, Presidential Post-Doc. Fellow (2014-2017).

• School of Advanced Material Science & Engineering, SKKU, Post-Doc. (2014).

Honors & Awards

• Cheong-Am Science Fellowship (Professor) POSCO T. J. Park Foundation (2019).

• Presidential Post-Doc. Fellowship NRF_Grant (2014).

• Cheong-Am Science Fellowship (Post-Doc.) POSCO T. J. Park Foundation (2014).

• 2015 Dow Chemical Award in Korea Grand Prize (2015).

• The top 10 science and technology news of 2014 The Korean Federation of S & T Societies (KOFST) (2014)