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Principal Investigator

Prof. Kisung Kang (강기성)

Assistant Professor (조교수)

School of Materials Science and Engineering, Chonnam National University
전남대학교 신소재공학부, +82-62-530-1693

Professional Experience

09.25 - Present
Assistant Professor School of Materials Science and Engineering, Chonnam National University,
Republic of Korea
10.24 - 08.25
BK21 Senior Research Fellow Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea Advisers: Prof. Seongmin Bak & Prof. Aloysius Soon
04.22 - 09.24
Group Leader / Max-Planck Postdoctoral Fellow The NOMAD Laboratory, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Germany Advisers: Prof. Matthias Scheffler & Dr. Christian Carbogno
02.15 - 08.16
Research Officer Materials Theory Group, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea Adviser: Prof. Aloysius Soon

Education

08.16 - 05.22
Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA Advisers: Prof. Andre Schleife & Prof. David G. Cahill
03.09 - 02.15
B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering Yonsei University, Republic of Korea Graduated with the highest honors (Summa Cum Laude) News
09.12 - 06.13
Exchange Student Program in Chemical Engineering University of California, Irvine, CA, USA

Selected Awards, Recognition, and Fellowships

11.2024
KRICT ChemDX Hackathon EXCELLENT Award Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT, 한국화학연구원)
11.2021
Illinois Materials Research Science and Engineering Center Grad Student Research Recognition University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
05.2021
Racheff-Intel Award University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
03.2021
DCOMP Travel Award, Division of Computational Physics American Physical Society
01.2021
Global Young Scientists Summit National Research Foundation, Prime Minister's Office, Singapore
08.2020
Mavis Future Faculty Fellow University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
01.2014
The Highest Award at Engineering Training Program KEPCO E&C (한국전력기술)
03.2013
Dream Class Scholarship The Samsung Welfare Foundation (삼성복지재단)
09.2013
- 02.2015 (총 4회)
National Scholarship for Science and Engineering Student (이공계 장학금) Korea Student Aid Foundation (한국장학재단)
12.2012,
03.2013 (총 2회)
Dean's Honor List University of California, Irvine
08.2009
- 02.2015 (총 5회)
The Highest Honors (진리 장학금) Yonsei University (연세대학교)