I. Education & Professional Experience
(2014) Dr. rer. nat. in Advanced Materials at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany (Supervisor: Dr. Michael Hirscher)
2022–present Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Ulsan National Institue of Science and Technology (UNIST)
2024–present Committee on Energy Research and Technology (CERT), REWP, Hydrogen Technology Collaboration Programme (Hydrogen TCP), International Energy Agency(IEA)
2024–present Expert, Task 40 “Energy Storage and Conversion Based on Hydrogen”, Hydrogen TCP, International Energy Agency(IEA)
2023–present Board Member of Trustees, The Korean Hydrogen and New Energy Society
2024–present Steering Committee Member of Inorganic Chemistry Division (Korean Chemical Society, KCS)
2022–2024 Associate Editor, Heliyon (Cell Press) - Chemistry division
2021–2021 Division(Chilam) Director, Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation at GNU
2015–2022 Assistant/Associate Professor, Department of Energy Engineering, Gyeongsang National University (GNU) – merged with GNTECH
2014–2015 Korea Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning(KISTEP), Associate Research Fellow
2014–2014 Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Post-doc. Research Fellow
2011–2014 Technical group Leader(Renewable Energy) at The Korean Scientists & Engineers Association in the FRG, Germany
2011–2012 Conference key organizer of ‘EU-Korea Conference on Science and Technology’ (EKC2012), Berlin, Germany (ca. 700 Participants)
II. Scholarship, Fellowship & Awards
05/2022 Best oral presentation award in 2022 KMRS’s spring meeting, Samcheok, Republic of Korea
12/2021 Honored with Commendation from Minister of Science and ICT
11/2021 Selected as one of the “2021 National R&D Excellence Top 100.”
11/2020 Best oral presentation award in 2020 KMRS’s fall meeting, Jeju, Republic of Korea
11/2019 Best poster presentation award(1st place) in AOCNS2019, Kenting, Taiwan
11/2017 Best oral presentation award in 2017 KSIEC’s spring meeting, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
12/2016 Best poster award at H2FC Researcher Conference held at Belfast, UK (cash prize of £100)
06/2014 European Cooperation in Science and Technology Trainee Grant for Training Schools (COST-MP1103- 170714-042321)
05/2014 Max Planck Postdoctoral fellowship, Germany
10/2013 Best oral presentation award in 2013 VeKNI’s 40th Anniversary Conference, Essen, Germany (cash prize of $ 1,000)
08/2012 Scholarship from Ilun Science & Technology Foundation, Republic of Korea
06/2013 European Cooperation in Science and Technology grant for Short Term Scientific Mission (COST-STSM-MP1103-13149)
11/2010 Max Planck Doctoral fellowship, Germany
11/2010 Best oral presentation award in 2010 VeKNI’s fall meeting, Essen, Germany
08/2010 Korean Government Scholarship for Overseas Study, Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning(KETEP), Republic of Korea.
09/2008 Korean Provincial Government Scholarship for Overseas Study, Chungcheongnam-do, Republic of Korea