Professor

Honors & Awards 

• 2025.05. Young Scientist Award, PIERS (Photonics and Electromagnetics Research Symposium) 2025, Abu Dhabi

• 2025.04. Young Scientist Award, The Polymer Society of Korea,  한국고분자학회 신진학술상 (2025 춘계)

• 2024.10. Korea Toray Fellowship, Korea Toray Science Foundation, 한국도레이 펠로십, 한국도레이과학진흥재단

• 2019.09. PRIME SPECIALE, School of Basic Sciences, EPFL, Switzerland

• 2019.09. LG Award, Korean Expert Association on Material Science and Technology in Europe (KEMST)

• 2017.10. Rising Scientist, Inter-Academy Seoul Science Forum (IASSF), The Korea Academy of Science and Technology (KAST), Republic of Korea

• 2017.01. Best Paper Award of Year, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, POSTECH, Republic of Korea

• 2015.04. Excellent Paper Presentation Award, The Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Republic of Korea

Representative achievements 

"Shallow-level Defect Passivation by 6H Perovskite Polytype for Highly Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells"

H. Kim*, S.-M. Yoo†, B. Ding†, H. Kanda, N. Shibayama, M. A. Syzgantseva, F. Fadaei Tirani, P. Schouwink, H. J. Yun, B. Son, Y. Ding, B.-S. Kim, Y. Y. Kim, J. Park, O. A. Syzgantseva, N. J. Jeon*, P. J. Dyson*, M. K. Nazeeruddin*

Nature Commun., 15, 5632 (2024), Featured in Editor’s highlights, “Devices”

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“Employing 2D-perovskite as an electron blocking layer in highly efficient (18.5%) perovskite solar cells with printable low temperature carbon electrode”

S. Zouhair†, S.-M. Yoo†, D. Bogachuk, J. P. Herterich, J. Lim, H. Kanda, B. Son, H. J. Yun, U. Würfel, A. Chahboun, M. K. Nazeeruddin, A. Hinsch*, L. Wagner*, H. Kim*

Adv. Energy Mater., 2200837 (2022)

“Proton-transfer-induced 3D/2D hybrid perovskites suppress ion migration and reduce luminance overshoot”

H. Kim†, J. S. Kim†, J.-M. Heo†, M. Pei, I.-H. Park, Z. Liu, H. J. Yun, M.-H. Park, S.-H. Jeong, Y.-H. Kim, J.-W. Park, E. Oveisi, S. Nagane, A. Sadhanala, L. Zhang, J. J. Kweon, S. K. Lee, H. Yang, H. M. Jang, R. H. Friend, K. P. Loh, M. K. Nazeeruddin, N.-G. Park, and T.-W. Lee*

Nature Commun., 11, 3378 (2020)

“Planar heterojunction organometal halide perovskite solar cells: Role of interfacial layers”

H. Kim†, K.-G. Lim†, and T.-W. Lee*

Energy Environ. Sci., 9, 12 (2016), Selected for Inside front cover

“On-fabrication solid-state N-doping of graphene by an electron transporting metal oxide layer for efficient inverted organic solar cells”

H. Kim, J. Byun, S.-H. Bae, T. Ahmed, J.-X. Zhu, S.-J. Kwon, Y. Lee, S.-Y. Min, C. Wolf, H.-K. Seo, J.-H. Ahn, and T.-W. Lee*

Adv. Energy Mater., 6, 1600172 (2016), Selected for Front cover, Best of Advanced Energy Materials – June, (2016)

“Efficient flexible organic/inorganic hybrid perovskite light-emitting diodes based on graphene anode”

H.-K. Seo†, H. Kim†, J. Lee, M.-H. Park, S.-H. Jeong, Y.-H Kim, S.-J. Kwon, T.-H. Han, S. Yoo and T.-W. Lee*

Adv. Mater., 29, 1605587 (2017)

Professional Activities 

Journal referee for

• Nature Photonics, published by Springer Nature

• Nature Communications, published by Springer Nature

• Advanced Energy Materials, published by Wiley-VCH

• Solar RRL, published by Wiley-VCH

• Applied Physics Letters, published by the American Institute of Physics

• ChemComm, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry

• Sustainable Energy & Fuels, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry

Academic Membership

한국고분자학회 (Polymer Society of Korea)

• 2024-: 학술교육위원회 위원 (Academic Committee Member)

• 2024-: 기술지 편집위원회 위원 (Editorial Borad Member for Polymer Science and Technology)

한국공업화학회 (The Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry)

• 2025-: 디스플레이분과회 총무간사 (General Secretary of the Display Division) 

• 2023-2024: 디스플레이분과회 섭외간사 (Liaison Member of the Display Division) 

대한금속재료학회 (The Korean Institute of Metals and Materials)

• 2024-: 디스플레이재료분과 간사위원 (Liaison Member of the Display Material Division) 

IMID (International Meeting on Information Display)

• 2025-: Micro-LEDs Division Program Sub-Committee Co-chair 

• 2025-: Quantum Dots Division Program Sub-Committee Secretary

• 2024-: Micro-LEDs Division Program Sub-Committee Member 

한국LED광전자학회 (Korea Society of LEDs and Optoelectronics; KSLOE)

• 2024-: LED/디스플레이/발광분과 분과위원 (Member of the Display Materials Division) 

NANO KOREA (Korea Nanotechnology Research Society; KoNTRS)

• 2024-: 퍼블릭프로그램 위원회 위원 (Member of the Public Programs Committee)