RSC Representative in South Korea
Professor Yong-Mook Kang, FRSC
Prof. Yong-Mook Kang completed his B.S. (1999), M.S. (2001), and Ph.D. (2004) in Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea. He has been a senior researcher at Samsung SDI Co., LTD. He was a professor at the Department of Energy and Materials Engineering at Dongguk University-Seoul and is now a professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Korea University.
His research covers electrode or catalyst materials for Li rechargeable batteries and various post Li batteries, such as Li-air battery, Na, K rechargeable battery, etc. To date, he has co-authored more than 200 refereed journal articles, over 100 domestic or international patents, several articles in books or proceedings, and a textbook on nano-science and electrochemical devices.
For his research achievements in energy conversion & storage materials, he was appointed as a TWAS(Academy of Science for Developing Worlds) Young Affiliate for the first time in the Republic of Korea and awarded the International Collaboration Award of Australian Research Council-2010. In 2015, he was appointed as a RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry) fellow & representative of Korea. Since 2020, he has been a member (Young Academician) of Y(Young)-KAST(The Korean Academy of Science and Technology).
