Hwan Kyu Kim

Hwan Kyu Kim 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 a leader of Creative Research Initiative 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. He was also served as a director of IT research Center from MKE (2008-2011). He received the 1998 Outstanding Research Award by the Korean Chemical Society, the 2001 Distinguished Research Award by the Korean Polymer Society, and the 2007 Monthly Award of Scientist and Engineer by NRF & MOST, etc. He was served as the president of both Korean Society of Photosciences and Korean Organic Photovoltaics Society as well as the vice-president of Korean Polymer Society. His current researches have been focused on creating and developing advanced organic and polymeric semiconductors for dye- and perovskite-sensitized solar cells and next generation energy storage devices.