Young-Si Jun
Associate professor
Contact_
E-mail: ysjun at jnu.ac.kr
Fax: +82)62-530-1819
Tel: +82)62-530-1812
Address: School of Engineering, Room 5-416, Chonnam National University, 77 Yongbong-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju, South Korea
Research Summary
My research interests lie in developing, synthesizing and characterizing target-oriented materials with integrated nanoscale to macroscale functionalities for applications in separation, sensing, and energy conversion/storage systems. I am working on the whole range of nitrogen-rich materials from semiconductor carbon nitrides to semi-metallic transition metal nitrides, but also their composites with conventional materials such as carbon and transition metal oxides. I uniquely focus on molecular cooperative assembly leading to morphology development and anisotropic, collective interactions as an effort to understand Nature's way toward efficient, sustainable systems. My knowledge obtained so far from studies of structure-function relationship in supramolecular structure is targeted at a global challenge regarding energy crisis and environmental sustainability, developing an efficient (photo-)organocatalytic system converting waste CO2 and CH4 to useful fuels, which requires a multidisciplinary approach encompassing material design, separation, photocatalysis, electrocatalysis and process design. For this purpose, I closely work with the Stucky and Moskovits groups at UCSB along with the Mitsubishi Chemical-Center for Advanced Materials (MC-CAM), the Wang group at Fuzhou University in China and the Thomas group at TU Berlin in Germany.
Education
Graduate
2003.03-2009.02 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea
PhD, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Thesis Title: Nanostructured carbon nitrides; Templating strategies for porous structure and their application
Supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Won Hi Hong
Undergraduate
1999.03-2003.02 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea
B.S. Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Experience
2024.09.01~present Professor
School of Chemical Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea
2024.01.01~2024.12.31 Director of Public Relations, Councilor
The Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers
2023.09.01~present Director
The Research Institute for Catalysis, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea
2019.09.01~present Associate Professor
School of Chemical Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea
2015.09.01~2019.08.31 Assistant Professor
School of Chemical Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea
2014.03.01~2015.06 Assistant Project Scientist
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Galen D. Stucky
2010.07~2014.02.28 Research Associate
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Galen D. Stucky
2010.07~2014.02.28 Research Associate
Mitsubishi Chemical-Center for Advanced Materials (MC-CAM), Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) Bldg., University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Galen D. Stucky, Dr. Makoto Ue, Dr. Tomohiro Kawai
2009.02.01~2010.05.30 BK21 Researcher
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea
Advisor: Prof. Dr. -Ing. Won Hi Hong
2007.02.15~2008.02.15 Visiting Scholar
Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung (MPI-KG), Department of Colloid Chemistry, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14424 Potsdam, Germany
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Arne Thomas and Prof. Dr. Markus Antonietti
2003.03.01~2009.01.30 Research Assistant
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea
Advisor: Prof. Dr. -Ing. Won Hi Hong