BREIF BIOGRAPHY
Email: yjhan@kaist.ac.kr | Office: +82-42-350-3653 | LinkedIn
I am currently a Master's student (3rd semester) in Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). I graduated in 2023 with a B.S. in Energy Engineering from Hanyang University, South Korea.
My research interests focus on developing novel and sustainable membrane materials for recovering and recycling valuable resources from industrial waste solutions. Specifically, I aim to design environmentally benign membranes and elucidate the transport phenomena.
Outside the lab, I enjoy skateboarding, reading, watching volleyball games, and plogging!
EDUCATION
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) | Daejeon, South Korea
M.S. Student in Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering (2024.09 – present)
Advisor: Prof.Chanhee Boo
Hanyang University | Seoul, South Korea
B.S. in Energy Engineering (2019 - 2023)
EXPERIENCE
Visiting Researcher | 2026.01 - 2026.06
Rice University
Selected Participant in 2023 UC Berkeley-SAF Program on Material Science & Nano Technology | 2023.07
UC Berkeley
Undergraduate Researcher | 2022.05 - 2023.02
Advanced Membrane Research Group, Hanyang University
Undergraduate Researcher | 2021.09 - 2022.02
BYUN Lab, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST)
SKILLS
Experimental & Analytical Skills
Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-OES, Agilent ICP-OES 5110)
Ion chromatography (IC, Thermo Fisher IC Dionex Inuvion)
Scanning electron microscopy (SEM, Hitach SU5000)
X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS, Thermo VG Scientific K-alpha)
Attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR)
Contact angle measurement
Uv-vis Spectroscopy (Hach DR6000)
Nanofiltration (NF)/Reverse Osmosis (RO) unit constructions and operations
X-ray powder diffraction (XRD, RIGAKU Ultima Ⅳ)
Technical Skills
Python
Gromacs
Origin
Microsoft Suite