EDUCATION

• Ph.D. :   Materials Science & Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), South Korea (2005) (advisor: Prof. Su-Il Pyun)

• M.S. :   Materials Science & Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), South Korea (2001) (advisor: Prof. Su-Il Pyun)

• B.S. :   Materials & Metallurgical Engineering, Hanyang University at Seoul, South Korea (1999)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• 03.2023 – present :    Professor, Division of Materials Science & Engineering, Hanyang University, South Korea

• 02.2020 – 02.2023 :    Associate Professor, Department of Energy Science & Engineering, DGIST, South Korea

• 09.2017 – 02.2020 :    Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Chosun University, South Korea

• 04.2010 – 08.2017 :    Principal Research Scientist, New & Renewable Energy Research Division, Korea Institute of Energy Research, South Korea

• 03.2008 – 03.2010 :    R&D Staff Member, Energy Lab., Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, South Korea

• 08.2006 – 02.2008 :    Research Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina, USA

• 04.2005 – 07.2006 :    Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina, USA (advisor: Prof. Branko N. Popov)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Editorial Board Member :  Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group) (2015–);  Transactions of the Korean Hydrogen & New Energy Society (2021–);   New & Renewable Energy (2018),  Journal of the Korean Electrochemical Society (2014–2017)

• Committee Member :  Korean Electrochemical Society (2014–);  Korean Ceramic Society (2019);  Korean Battery Society (2022–)

• Symposium Organizer :  Asian SOFC Symposium & Exhibition (2014, 2020);  Korean Ceramic Society (2016, 2017);  PRiME 2016;  IUMRS-ICAM 2015;   International Li–Air Battery Symposium (2014);  Nano Korea (2014)

RECENT PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED) 

• J. Yun, J.-W. Lee* et al., Deciphering the Critical Degradation Factors of Solid Composite Electrodes with Halide Electrolytes: Interfacial Reaction versus Ionic Transport, Energy Storage Materials 59 (2023) 102787. 

• W. Jeong, J.-W. Lee* et al., Tailoring Grain Boundary Structures and Chemistry of Li7La3Zr2O12 Solid Electrolytes for Enhanced Air Stability, Energy Storage Materials 54 (2023) 543. 

• H. R. Shin, J.-W. Lee* et al., Mechanistic and Nanoarchitectonics Insight into Li-Host Interactions in Carbon Hosts for Reversible Li Metal Storage, Nano Energy 95 (2022) 106999.

• S.-M. Lee, J.-W. Lee* et al., A Cooperative Biphasic MoOx–MoPx Promoter Enables a Fast-Charging Lithium-Ion Battery, Nature Communications 12 (2021) 39.

• J. Yun, J.-W. Lee* et al., Bottom-up Lithium Growth Triggered by Interfacial Activity Gradient on Porous Framework for Lithium Metal Anode, ACS Energy Letters 5 (2020) 3108.