Professor, Department of Advanced Materials Chemistry, Korea University, South Korea; Vice President, Korea Polymer Society

Dr. Hwan Kyu Kim is currently a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Advanced Materials Chemistry at Korea University. He received B.S. in applied chemistry from University of Ulsan (1980), M.S. in chemistry from KAIST (1982) and Ph. D in polymer chemistry from Carnegie Mellon University (1990) after research experience at KRICT(1982-1986). After postdoctoral research in Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University (1991-1993), he joined ETRI as a project leader of polymeric photonic device group (1993-1994) and then he joined Hannam University, where he became a Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering (1994-2007) and he served as a leader of Creative Research Center for Smart Light-harvesting Materials (2001-2007). In 2007, he was invited as a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Advanced Materials Chemistry at Korea University and served as a director of IT Research Center from MKE (2008-2011). Currently, he is a director of Center for Next Generation Solar Cells and their Convergence Technology. He was served as the president of Korean Society of Photoscience and Korean Organic Photovoltaic Society as well as the vice-president of Korea Polymer Society. His current researches have been focused on developing advanced organic and polymeric semiconductors for dye-sensitized and perovskite solar cells and next generation energy storage devices.

Speech Title: Copolymer-templated tellurium-doped mesoporous carbons as a Pt-free electrocatalyst for high-performance dye-sensitized solar cells