EDUCATION & Work  Experience

• 03/2011 – 08/2015 : B.S. in chemical engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)

• 09/2015 – 03/2021 : Ph.D. in chemical engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)

• 04/2021 - 08/2021 : Postdoc., Energy and Chemical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)

• 09/2021 - 06/2025: LG Energy Solution, Computational Science Team, Analytical Science Center

• 07/2025 - current : Assistant Professor, School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, Changwon National Universtiy

AWARDS & CERTIFICATION

1. 신진학술상(Young Scientist Award), 12/2025, The Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (한국공업화학회, KSIEC)

2. Global Ph.D Fellowship (03/2016 ~ 02/2021), "Theoretical study and application of Jahn-Teller polaron via excess carriers in transition metal oxide", Total 150 million KRW (~136,000 USD) for 5 years, National Research Foundation of Korea

3. Outstanding Graduate Student Award, 11/2020, Department of Chemical Engineering of UNIST, Ulsan, Korea

4. Outstanding Graduate Student Award, 11/2019, Department of Chemical Engineering of UNIST, Ulsan, Korea

5. Best Poster presentation, "DFT calculation on pPy-assisted ORR of the metal-doped terephthalate", 03/2019, KSCT, Gyeongju, Korea

6. Best Poster presentation, "Theoretical Study on Defect Formation Energies and Defect Transition Energies of (CH3NH3)PbI3 for Bulk and Surface States", 04/2018, KIChE Spring Meeting, Changwon, Korea

7. Gold prize, "Monolithic heterojunction dual-phase battery electrolytes", 02/2018, Samsung Human Tech Paper Award, Korea

8. Best Oral presentation, “Effect of Doping and Defect on Hong-Type NASICON Structure: First- Principle Study”, 10/2017, Energy Environment session at KIChE Fall Meeting, Daejeon, Korea

9.  Promising young scientist of Korea (2016), The Korean Academy of Science and Technology

10.  National Science& Technology Scholarship (03/2011 ~ 08/2015), Korea Student Aid Foundation