RESEARCH EXPERIENCES

2018.9 – present  Full Professor, Dept of Chem & Biomol Eng, KAIST

2014.3 – 2018.8    Associate Professor, Dept of Chem & Biomol Eng, KAIST

2007.9 – 2014.2    Assistant, Associate Professor, Dept of Chem & Biomol Eng, Yonsei University

2005.7 – 2007.7    Post-Doctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley 

AWARDS

• Outstanding Faculty Award in Commemoration of 55th Founding Anniversity (Research Award), KAIST (2026)

• Distinguished Female Engineer Award, Taiwanese Institute of Chemical Engineers (TwiChE) (2025)

• Presidential Citation on Science Day, Government of the Republic of Korea (2024)

• KAIST Endowed Chair Professor (2024)

• Selected as a member of National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK) (2021)

• Selected as a member of Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology (Y-KAST) (2019)

• KIChE Catalysis Division, Young Catalysis Scholar Prize (2018)

• KAIST College of Engineering, Technology Innovation Prize (2017)

• Nano Korea 2017 Research Innovation Prize, Awarded by Minister of Future, Planning and Science (2017)

• IUPAC 2015 Distinguished Women in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Award: awarded to women scientists in the field of chemistry and chemical engineering by IUPAC (2015)

• Excellent Researcher Award: awarded to excellent researchers of Yonsei University (2013)

• Distinguished Lectureship Award: awarded to distinguished young Asian researchers by the Chemical Society of Japan (2010) (for the work on nanocrystals and their applications)

• Excellent Lecturer Award: awarded to excellent lectures of Yonsei Univeristy (2008)