Team
Assistant Professor
Jiyoung Lee (이지영), Ph.D.
She obtained her MSc degree from the Graduate School of EEWS (Energy, Environment, Water, and Sustainability) at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2018, under the supervision of Professor Ali Coskun (MSc thesis: Design and Synthesis of Conjugated Microporous Polymers for Environmental Applications).
She then pursued her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at KAIST, completing it in 2022 under the guidance of Professor Il-Doo Kim (PhD dissertation: Design and Synthesis of Porous Organic Frameworks for Energy Storage Applications).
Following her graduate studies, she held professional appointments at KAIST from 2022 to 2023, focusing on the design and development of functional nanomaterials for energy and environmental applications.
In 2023, she joined the laboratory of Prof.
Jeffrey Lopez at Northwestern University as a postdoctoral researcher, where she worked on developing sustainable next-generation energy storage systems, with a focus on solid-state electrolytes and battery recycling, until 2024. She joined to the Department of Chemical Engineering in Ajou University as an assistant professor and established her new lab in September 2024.
Best poster award at 2022 7th International Conference
on Electronic Materials and Nanotechnology for Green Environment (ENGE 2022) 11/2022
Ph.D. student Fellowship 06/2020 – 02/2022
Title: Systemic approach to develop new conjugated porous polymers for next-generation energy storage system
National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), Republic of Korea
Best poster awards at the 28th Korean Conference on Semiconductors 01/2021
Outstanding investigator award from KAIST Nanocentury institute 12/2020
Best poster award at 2019 5th International Conference Advanced Electromaterials 11/2019
Best poster awards at 2019 Electrospinning conference 06/2019
Bronze award for poster presentation at MSE 2019 Joint symposium 06/2019
Dean’s award at graduation (Summa Cum Laude) 02/2016
Scholarship through outstanding grades in undergraduate school 2012, 2013, and 2014