Sustainable Catalysis & Synthesis Lab
Hyunwoo Kim
Associate Professor
Phone:
054-279-2332 (office)
Email:
Office & Lab Address:
POSTECH Chemistry Building #315
Cheongam-ro 77, Nam-gu
Pohang, Republic of Korea
Hyunwoo Kim received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2013 and earned his Ph.D. in 2018 under the supervision of Prof. Sukbok Chang at the same institution. He then worked as a Research Fellow at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) for one year before completing his postdoctoral research at Cornell University with Profs. Song Lin and Tristan Lambert in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. In 2020, he joined Ewha Womans University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and NanoScience. Since 2022, he has been a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry at POSTECH, where his research focuses on radical organic chemistry and organic electrosynthesis, aiming to develop sustainable synthetic methodologies.
Education & Professional Career
2022~
2020~2022
2019~2020
2018-2019
2013~2018
2009~2013
Assistant & associate professor in Chemistry, POSTECH
Assistant professor in Chemistry and Nanoscience, Ewha Womans University
Postdoctoral associate, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell university, USA
Advisors (Profs. Song Lin & Tristan H. Lambert)
Research fellow, Center for Hydrocarbon Functionalization, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Korea
Ph.D. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Organic Chemistry, Transition-Metal Catalysis
(Advisor: Prof. Sukbok Chang)
B.S. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Chemistry
Awards & Honors
The Distinguished Lectureship Award for Work on Electrochemistry, The Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ), 2025
Asian Core Program (ACP) on Cutting-Edge Organic Chemistry Lectureship Award (Japan Side), 2024
Asian Core Program (ACP) on Cutting-Edge Organic Chemistry Lectureship Award (Taiwan Side), 2024
Samsung Science & Technology Foundation Awardee in Chemistry, 2024 (link)
Thieme Chemistry Journals Award, Germany, 2024 (link)
Asian Core Program (ACP) on Cutting-Edge Organic Chemistry Lectureship Award (China Side), 2023
Asian Core Program (ACP) on Cutting-Edge Organic Chemistry Lectureship Award (Singapore Side), 2023
The 6th Toray Research Grant for Young Investigator, 2023 (link)
The 13th POSCO Science Fellowship, 2022 (link)
Excellent Thesis Award, KAIST, 2018
Editorial Board
2025 - 2027, Early Career Advisory Board, Science of Synthesis, Thieme
2020 - present, Youth Editorial Board, Green Synthesis and Catalysis, ScienceDirect
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