Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 2006 M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 2003 B.S., Materials Engineering, SungKyunKwan University, Suwon, South Korea, 2000
Professor, School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, UNIST, Ulsan, Korea, 2020-Present Director, Seawater Resource Technology Center, UNIST, Ulsan, Korea, 2020-PresentCEO, 4 TO ONE Corporation, Ulsan, Korea, 2015-2022Associate Professor, School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, UNIST, Ulsan, Korea, 2015-2020 Assistant Professor, School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, UNIST, Ulsan, Korea, 2013-2015 Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI), Indiana polis, USA, 2010-2013 Research Scientist, Richard Lugar Center for Renewable Energy (RLCR), IUPUI, Indianapolis, USA, 2010-2013 Postdoctoral Fellow, Texas Materials Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, USA, 2006-2010 Research Assistant, Department of Materials and Science Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, USA, 2001-2006
Materials and devices for energy storage and conversion Identifying and developing advanced functional materials Understanding the chemistry-structure-physical property relationships in materials Transition metal inorganic solids Glass and glass-ceramics Fast-ion conducting solid membranes Synthesis of new inorganic materials