Research experience

- Associate Adjunct Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Davis, March 1st 2026 - current 

- Career Staff Scientist, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, December. 1st, 2023 – current

- Career-Track Staff Scientist, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, March. 21st , 2019 – November 30, 2023

- Postdoctoral Researcher, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, March. 14th 2016 – March. 20th 2019

(Supervisor: Prof. Gerbrand Ceder)- Served as Lab manager (March 2018 – March 2019)

- Postdoctoral Researcher, Research Institute of Advanced Materials, Seoul National University, March. 15th 2015 – Feb. 29th 2016 (Supervisor: Prof. Kisuk Kang) - Served as Lab manager.

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Teaching experiences

- Associate Adjunct Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Davis, March 1st 2026 - current 

- Materials Science and Engineering Department Seminar (guest lecture) at University of California, Davis (2025)

- Chemical and Materials Engineering Department Seminar (guest lecture) at San Jose State University (2024)

- Electrochemical Analysis for Battery Applications (guest lecture) at The University of California, Santa Barbara (2019)

- Mentoring/advising postdocs in Haegyum Kim’s lab (2019-current)

- Co-advising graduate students/postdocs in the lab, Ceder Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2016-2023)

- Mentoring undergraduate/graduate students, Kisuk Kang’s group, Seoul National University (2013-2015)

- Training visiting students from Daegu Science High School (29 June 2015 – 2 July 2015)

 

Education

- Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Ph.D., Department of Materials Science and Engineering, March. 1st 2011 – Feb. 26th 2015 (Advisor :Prof. Kisuk Kang)

(The Best Graduate Thesis Award)

- KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

M.S., Graduate school of EEWS, Sept. 1st 2009 – Feb. 1st 2011 (Advisor : Prof. Kisuk Kang)

- Hangyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

B.S., Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Feb. 27th 2006 – Aug. 21st 2009

(Summa Cum Laude)

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Representative Honors & Awards

• ​Director's Award for Exceptional Early Scientific Career Achievement, LBNL (2024)

• Batteries Young Investigator Award (2024)

• Journal of Materials Chemistry A Emerging Investigator (2024)

• Highly Cited Researcher (Cross-field), Web of Science (2019, 2021-2023)

• 2023 Rising Star in Materials Science, ACS Materials Au (2023)

• Top Cited Researcher, Scilit (2023)

• The Young Scientist Award, International Society for Solid State Ionics (2022)

• Best Rising Stars of Science in the World, Research.com (2022)

• Invited Participant in 2022 EU-US Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) (2022)

• World’s Top 2% Scientist List, single year impact, databases of standardized citation metrics (2019-2022)

• Berkeley Lab Early Career Enrichment Program Cohort (2021)

• LBNL Director’s Award for Exceptional Safety Achievement (2019)

• ECS Battery Division Postdoctoral Associate Research Award (2017)

• ECS Energy Technology Division Graduate Student Award (2015)

• The Best Graduate Student Thesis Award, Seoul National University (2014)

• ECS Student Award of the Korea Section (2014)

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Service and Outreach

​- Advisory, Editorial, Mentorship:

• Editorial Board member in Energy & Fuels (ACS journal) (since 2024)

• Materials Horizons Community Board (RSC journal, since 2023)

• Young Editorial Board Member of Battery Energy (2022-2025)

• Editorial Board member in Electrochem (MDPI journal) (since 2019)

• Korea Technology Advisory Group (K-TAG) member (since 2023)

• Mentor at MESA (Mentoring program in Energy Science Area) at LBNL (2022-2023)

• Safety committee member, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (since 2018)

• Strategic planning committee ESA (Energy Science Area) Charter Hill visioning, LBNL (2020-2022)

- IDEA (Inclusive, Diversity, Equity, and Accountability) activity:

• Advancing STEM Pioneers In Research In Energy Sciences (ASPIRES) taskforce (2024)

• Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) committee, MSD, LBNL (2021-2023)

• National Lab Fair (Jan. 19th 2022)

• Berkeley Lab Ambassador (since 2021)

• Judge for 2021 Contra Costa County (CCC) Science and Engineering Fair (March 12th, 2021)

• Berkeley Lab Teaching Scholar (since 2021)

- Symposium organizers:

• ECS (2022, 2023), MRS (2022, 2023, 2025), ACS (2025) meetings

• Charter Hill Accelerated Discovery and Synthesis Focus Session (August, 2021)

• In-situ Electron Microscopy workshop, Energy Science Area, LBNL (June, 2021)

- Guest Editor for:

• Journal of Materials Research (JMR) Focus Issue (Topic: Multiscale Characterization and Analysis for Understanding Energy Storage Mechanisms in Rechargeable Batteries) (2021)

• Frontiers in Chemistry (Topic: Beyond Li-ion Batteries for Mid/Large Scale Energy Storage Applications: Opportunities and Challenges) (2019)

- Review panel for:

• DOE/BES and DOE/EERE research programs (since 2022)

• American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) Scholarship (since 2022)

• VFP (Visiting Faculty Program) of LBNL (since 2021)

• Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (since 2021)

• Estonian Research Council (Research funding organization) (since 2019)

• Israel Science Foundation (ISF) (since 2021)

- Workshop Panelist at:

• ANL-LBNL-PNNL Joint Energy Storage Workshop (October 20-22, 2021)

• National Energy Storage Summit’s Roundtable: Circularity in Battery Recycling for a Sustainable Future  (March. 9th 2022)