Principal Investigator: Kwiyong Kim
Kwiyong Kim is as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Urban, Earth, and Environmental Engineering and also in the Graduate School of Carbon Neutrality at UNIST. He obtained a Bachelor's degree in Bio and Brain Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering from KAIST in 2012. He obtained a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from KAIST in 2018, working under the supervision of Prof. Jong-In Han. His thesis focused on the electrochemical synthesis of ammonia from water and dinitrogen as a next-generation energy carrier. After earning his degree, he continued his research at Iowa State University, working with Prof. Wenzhen Li on electrocatalysis topics, and in the Prof. Xiao Su group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, performing electrochemical separations for water remediation and metal recovery. Kwiyong received the NRF (National Research Foundation of Korea) Postdoctoral Fellowship (2020) and the Tony and Colleen Shen Postdoctoral Fellowship (2021) during his postdoctoral studies.
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor / Department of Civil, Urban, Earth, and Environmental Engineering & Graduate School of Carbon Neutrality, UNIST, Ulsan, Korea, Oct. 2022 – Present
Postdoctoral Research Associate / Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States, Apr. 2019 – Oct. 2022 (Advisor: Prof. Xiao Su; link to Su research group)
Postdoctoral Research Associate / Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States, Sep. 2018 – Mar. 2019 (Advisor: Prof. Wenzhen Li; link to Li Research group)
Postdoctoral Researcher / Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, Feb. 2018 – May. 2018 (Advisor: Prof. Jong-In Han; link to Han Research group)
Education
M.S.-Ph.D. integrated course in Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, KAIST, 2018
Advisor: Prof. Jong-In Han, Thesis: Development of novel processes for electrochemical synthesis of ammonia
B.S. in Dept. of Bio and Brain Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering, KAIST, 2012