Prof. Won-Jin Kwak 

Associate Professor in School of Energy and Chemical Engineering
at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)

Address: Battery R&D Center (Bldg. 111 Rm. 401-1),
50 UNIST-gil, Eonyang-eup, Ulju-gun, Ulsan, 44919, Republic of Korea

Tel: +82-52-217-3038

Email: wjkwak@unist.ac.kr

ORCID: 0000-0002-9807-1434

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.kr/citations?user=I0lRS4MAAAAJ&hl=ko

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/won-jin-kwak-240618183/

CRIC's People: https://www.nric.or.kr/board/boardView/5613.do


Experience

• Associate Professor, School of Energy and Chemical Engineering,
UNIST, Republic of Korea (2025 - Present)​

• Assistant Professor, School of Energy and Chemical Engineering,
UNIST, Republic of Korea (2023 - 2025)​
• Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry & Department of Energy Systems Research,
Ajou University, Republic of Korea (2020 - 2023)​

• Postdoctoral Research Associate (Advisor: Dr. Jason Zhang & Dr. Wu Xu),
PNNL, United States (2019-2020)

• Postdoctoral Fellow (Advisor: Prof. Yang-Kook Sun), ESCML,
Hanyang University, Republic of Korea (2018-2019)


Education​

• Ph.D. Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea (Feb 2018)

Department of Energy Engineering

Thesis title: Lithium halides as redox mediators for lithium oxygen batteries
(Advisor: Prof. Yang-Kook Sun)

• B.S. Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea (Feb 2012)

Department of Chemical Engineering