Hwajeong Kim

Hwajeong Kim received the B.S. degree from the Department of Chemistry, Kyungsung University, Busan, South Korea, in 1997, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in natural science from the Department of Chemistry, Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea, in 2000 and 2006, respectively. During her doctor degree, she studied for the electrochemical characterization and surface analysis of biomaterials and conducting polymer films which were applied to biosensors and bioelectronics. In 2006, she joined the Nano-Information Materials Laboratory (supervisor: Prof. C.-S. Ha), Department of Polymer Science and Engineering (PNU), where she studied for protein sensors based on highly ordered TiO2 films and functional polymer characterization methods (Co-Advisor: Prof. Y. Kim at Imperial College London). Then she relocated to London and joined Neurobionics group (supervisor: Dr. P. Degenaar), Imperial College London, where she worked for biosensors to diagnose heart diseases and artificial eyes. In 2007, she joined Organic Nanoelectronics Laboratory (supervisor: Prof. Y. Kim), Department of Chemical Engineering, Kyungpook National University, where she worked for a variety of organic electronic devices, including organic solar cells, biomeditronic devices, and organic phototransistors. In 2009, she joined KNP Energy Co. Ltd., a Joint Venture company co-founded by Plextronics (USA) and KPF (Republic of Korea), as a R&D Team Manager for organic solar cell business, and then joined as a Research Professor of Priority Research Center, funded by the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea, in the Research Institute of Advanced Energy Technology (KNU) during2009–2018, and is currently with the Research Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (KNU). She has authored or coauthored 156 journal papers, contributed 236 conference presentations, and filed 58 patents. She was the recipient of the Excellent Researcher Prize from the Center for Integrated Molecular Systems by the Korea Science and Engineering (POSTECH) in 2005 and the Overseas Postdoctoral Fellowship from Korea Research Foundation in 2006.