Smart Nanoparticle Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Materials for CO2 Capture, Utilization and Storage Technologies (CCUS)
Novel Solid Carbonation Technology with Integrated Urban Mining
Innovative Extraction of Methane Hydrate for Future Energy
Sustainable Energy Conversion and Storage for Unconventional Energy Sources
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
2023-present: Professor, School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)
2015-2023: Assistant/Associate Professor, School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (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
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
Editor, Chemical Engineering Journal (Green and Sustainable Science and Engineering), 2022 - present
한국판 그린뉴딜 실무지원단 자문위원(기획재정부), 2020 - 2022
Associate Editor, Frontiers in Energy Research, 2017 - present
Mission Innovation Workshop Panelist: Solid Carbonates for CO2 Utilization, 2017
Conference Area Co-Chair: The World Congress in Particle Technology VIII, WCPT8, 2018
Conference Organizing Committee: 18th International Conference on Carbon Dioxide Utilization (ICCDU2021), 2021
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
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
Observation of distinct structural transformation between sI and sH gas hydrates and their kinetic properties during CO2 capture from N2 + CO2, Chemical Engineering Journal, 389, 123749, 2020
Investigation of tuning behavior of trimethylene oxide hydrate with guest methane molecule and its critical guest concentration, Chemical Engineering Journal, 389, 123582, 2020
One-step formation of hydrogen clusters in clathrate hydrates stabilized via natural gas blending, Energy Storage Materials, 24, 655-661, 2020
Investigation of thermodynamic and kinetic effects of cyclopentane derivatives on CO2 hydrates for potential application to seawater desaliniation, Chemical Engineering Journal, 363, 99-106, 2019
Distinct hydrophobic-hydrophilic dual interaction occurring in the clathrate hydrates of 3,3-dimethyl-1-butanol with help gases, Chemical Engineering Journal, 348, 583-591, 2018
Secondary gaseous guest-dependent structures of binary neopentyl alcohol hydrates and their tuning behavior for potential application to CO2 capture, Chemical Engineering Journal, 330, 890-898, 2017
Magnetic transition and long-time relaxation behavior induced by selective injection of guest molecules into clathrate hydrates, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 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, 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, 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, 103, 12690-12694, 2006; Selected as the top-cited paper published in 2006 by Google Scholar (Environmental & Geological Engineering)
