EDUCATION

Ph.D., Chemical Engineering (2/00) Postech, Korea
| The Effect of Microstructure of Porous Electrodes on the Frequency Dispersion of Impedances
Prof. Kun-Hong Lee, Advisor

M.S., Chemical Engineering (2/96) Postech, Korea
| Preparation and Adsorption Characteristics of Base-site-containing Adsorbents for CO2 High-temperature Separation
Prof. Kun-Hong Lee, Advisor

B.S., Chemical Engineering (2/94) Postech, Korea
| Simultaneous Degradation of Phenol and Cyanide by Two-stage Continuous Bioreactor
Prof. Jong Moon Park, Advisor

EXPERIENCE

Professor (09/18 - present) Associate Professor (09/12 - 08/18)
Assistant Professor (09/08 - 08/12)
UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology)

Senior Research Scientist (07/06 – 08/08) Battery R&D, LG Chem, Ltd. / Research Park, Daejeon, Korea
| Research on Lithium ion rechargeable batteries
| Quantification of wetting of electrolyte to porous electrodes
| Prediction of long-term performance from short-term performance

Postdoctoral Research Associate (11/03-07/06) Division of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
| Research on biomaterials for nerve regeneration.
| Synthesis of conducting polymers coupled with growth promoting cues to control cell Adhesion and axonal outgrowth of neurons.

Postdoctoral Research Associate (02/03-10/03) School of Chemical and Biological engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
| Deconvolution of distribution functions using Fourier transforms
| Electrochromism of conducting polymers

Postdoctoral Research Associate (09/01-01/03) Division of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
| Research on biofuel cells
| Synthesis of conducting polymers doped with a mediator for biofuel cells
| Mediated enzymatic polymerization
| Development of batteries consisting of two different redox-active conducting polymers.

Postdoctoral Research Associate (03/00-08/01) Department of Chemical Engineering, Postech, Pohang, Korea
| Developed ¡°Electrochemical Porosimetry¡± software based on TLM-PSD
| Development of ultracapacitors using carbon nanotubes

Research Assistant (03/96-02/00) Department of Chemical Engineering, Postech, Pohang, Korea
| Developed a theory relating electrochemical impedance data with geometrical structure of porous electrodes
| Development of adsorption heat pump systems

Teaching Assistant (03/94-02/96) Department of Chemical Engineering, Postech, Pohang, Korea
| Sol-gel synthesis
| Study on adsorption of carbon dioxide on the chemically modified silica and carbon adsorbents
| Manufacture of biodegradable packaging foams from agar by freeze-drying

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Electrochemistry | Cyclic voltammetry, chronoamperometry, chronopotentiometry, chronocoulometry
| Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS)
| Conducting polymers

Microelectronic Fabrication | Electron beam evaporation technique
| Photolithography
| Soft lithography using micro-contact printing.

Materials Characterization | Structural characterization technique: scanning electron microscope (SEM), surface profiler, adsorption porosimetry, mercury porosimetry
| Spectroscopic technique: UV/visible spectroscopy, fourier-transfomed infrared spectroscopy

Mammal Cell Culture | Dissociation of cells from organs
| Immunocytochemistry
| Fluorescent labeling

AFFILIATION

The Electrochemical Society
Materials Research Society
The Korean Electrochemical Society
The Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers