Energy and Environmental Technologies for Circular Economy
(1) DACCS (Direct Air Capture & Storage) Technology for Circular Carbon Economy
(2) Innovative Extraction of Critical Metal Resources, including Rare Earth Elements and Battery Minerals, for Circular Resource Economy
(3) Sustainable Energy Conversion, Separation, and Storage for Circular Energy Economy
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
2023-present: Professor, School of Environment and Energy Engineering, GIST
2015-2023: Assistant/Associate Professor, School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering, GIST
2012-2015: Senior Researcher, SK Innovation Global Technology R&D Center
2009-2012: Post-Doctoral Research Scientist, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy, Columbia University in the City of New York (Advisor: Prof. Ah-Hyung Alissa Park)
EDUCATIONS
2009: Ph.D. Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, KAIST (Thesis: Thermodynamic Analysis and Microscopic Identification of Host-Guest Interactions occurring in Clathrate Hydrates: Applications to Energy and Environmental Systems, Advisor: Prof. Huen Lee)
2005: M.S. Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, KAIST
2004: B.S. Department of Chemical Engineering, Sogang University (Cum Laude)
AWARD & HONORS
GIST 공로상 (2023)
Outstanding Paper Award, 'Phase Equilibria and Critical Guest Concentration of Binary Methane Clathrate Hydrate', The 8th International Conference on Separation Science and Technology (2008)
Grand Prize for The Paper Competition at the Energy Week 2007, 'Method for Recovering Methane Gas from Natural Gas Hydrates', Korea Ministry of Knowledge Economy (2007)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES & SERVICES
Vice Dean, School of Environment and Energy Engineering, GIST, 2023 - 2025
Editor, Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022 - present
한국화학공학회(KIChE) 제55대운영위원회 국제이사, 2024
한국화학공학회(KIChE) 열역학분자모사부문위원회 총무간사, 2023 - 2024
한국청정기술학회 편집이사, 2023 - 2024
한국화학공학회(KIChE) 연구기술개발업무위원회 위원, 2022 - 2023
Conference Organizing Committee: 18th International Conference on Carbon Dioxide Utilization (ICCDU2021), 2021
한국판 그린뉴딜 실무지원단 자문위원(기획재정부), 2020 - 2022
Conference Area Co-Chair: The World Congress in Particle Technology VIII (WCPT8), 2018
한국화학공학회(KIChE) 분리기술부문위원회 기획간사, 2016 - 2017
Mission Innovation Workshop Panelist: Solid Carbonates for CO2 Utilization, 2017
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
Advances in nanomaterials for sustainable gas separation and storage: focus on clathrate hydrates, Accounts of Chemical Research, 56, 3111, 2023
Unlocking enhanced gas storage capapcity in tuned methane hydrates: exploring eutectic compositions and water-to-hydrate conversion, Chemical Engineering Journal, 475, 146381, 2023
Simultaneous CO2 utilization and rare earth elements recovery by novel aqueous carbon mineralization of blast furnace slag, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 10, 107327, 2022
Critical hydrogen concentration of hydrogen-natural gas blends in clathrate hydrates for blue hydrogen storage, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, 141, 110789, 2021
Integration of two waste streams for carbon storage and utilization: Enhanced metal extraction from steel slag using biogenic volatile organic acids, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 8, 18519-18527, 2020; Featured as a Cover Article
One-step formation of hydrogen clusters in clathrate hydrates stabilized via natural gas blending, Energy Storage Materials, 24, 655-661, 2020
Magnetic transition and long-time relaxation behavior induced by selective injection of guest molecules into clathrate hydrates, Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), 131, 5736-5737, 2009; Selected as a Research Highlight of Nature Asia Materials (Nature Publishing Group), ‘Magnetic Materials: Molecular Guests’, July 20, 2009
Spectroscopic observation of atomic hydrogen radicals entrapped In icy hydrogen hydrate, Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), 130, 9208-9209, 2008; Selected as an Editors’ Choice, ‘Radical Stabilization’, Science, 321, 177 (2008)
Discrete thermal patterns of hydrogen and deuterium molecules enclathrated in confined hydrate cages, Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), 129, 2208-2209, 2007
Sequestering carbon dioxide into complex structures of naturally occurring gas hydrates, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 103, 12690-12694, 2006; Selected as the top-cited paper published in 2006 by Google Scholar (Environmental & Geological Engineering)
