Our Research Group

We are always looking for talented, enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join our group.

2014-2017 PhD in Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Thesis Title: “Modelling of reverse osmosis membrane process and transport phenomena: from feed spacers to large-scale plants”
Thesis Supervisors: Professor Xiao Yun Xu & Professor Claire S. Adjiman
2009-2011 MSc in Chemical and Biological Engineering, Korea University, South Korea
Thesis Title: “Forward osmosis desalination process: modelling and simulation”
Thesis Supervisor: Professor Dae Ryook Yang
2004-2009 BSc in Chemical and Biological Engineering, Korea University, South Korea

September 2020 - Present Assistant Professor at School of Chemical Engineering in Chonnam National University

March 2019 - July 2019 Postdoctoral Researcher at Applied Science Research Institute in KAIST
April 2017 - November 2019 Research Associate at Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London
September 2012 - August 2013 Research Assistant at Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Korea University

Group Leader

Journal Editorial Board

Conference Organisation

National organizing committee, The 13th IFAC Symposium on Dynamics and Control of Process Systems, including Biosystems (DYCOPS), Busan, Republic of Korea, 14-17 June 2022.
Organising committee for UK-China Newton Fund British Council Researcher Links Workshop, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 10-12 September 2019.

Selected participants in Asian Deans' Forum 2018: Rising Stars Women in Engineering Workshop, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong. October 2018.
Travel grant awarded at the 2nd Joint Meeting of the International Society of Fibrinolysis and Proteolysis and the Plasminogen Activation Workshop, Edinburgh, UK. September 2018.
1st Prize for Best Vascular Simulation Work at Young Researchers' Conference 2018, London, UK, July 2018.
Fully funded PhD scholarship awarded by BP International Centre for Advanced Materials (ICAM). April 2013 - March 2017. Imperial College London, UK.
Scholarship awarded by Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD, German Academic Exchange Service). September-December 2008. Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany.