Education

• Ph.D. in Chemistry, KAIST (2009.02 - 2015.02) (Advisor: Prof. Haeshin Lee, Dissertation: Study on Nature-Inspired Catecholamine Chemistry to Develop Multifunctional Biomaterials)

• B.S. in Chemistry, Summa Cum Laude, KAIST (2005.03 - 2009.01)

Professional Experiences

• Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Chemistry, DGIST (2022.09 - present)

• Visiting Scientist, INM - Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Germany (2024.02 - 2025.01)

• Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Chemistry, DGIST (2022.02 - 2022.08)

• Assistant Professor, Department of Emerging Materials Science, DGIST (2017.06 - 2022.02)

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, PI: Prof. Hakho Lee & Prof. Ralph Weissleder (2015.02 - 2017.04)

• Predoctoral Research Fellow, Biomaterials Innovation Research Center, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, PI: Prof. Ali Khademhosseini (2014.05 - 2015.02)

Honors and Awards

• 2024 Materials Today Rising Star Award in the field of Biomaterials sponsored by Materials Today (Elsevier) (2024)

• Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers (2024)

• Young scientist award from Miwon Commercial Co. Ltd., The Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (2019)

• KAIST Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, Department of Chemistry, KAIST (2015)

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