Kimoon Kim

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Kimoon Kim received his B.S. degree from Seoul National University (1976), MS degree from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (1978), and Ph.D. degree from Stanford University (1986). After 2 year postdoctoral work at Northwestern University he started his own academic career at Pohang University of Science and Technology in 1988 where he is now a Professor of Chemistry. He is also director of the Center for Smart Supramolecules supported by the Creative Research Initiative Program of the Korean Ministry of Science and Technology. His current research focuses on developing novel supramolecular systems toward functional materials and devices. In particular, his group has been working on a wide variety of functional supramolecular systems based on cucurbiturils, a family of pumpkin-shaped macrocyclic molecules, and metal-organic porous materials useful for catalysis, separation and gas storage. His work has been recognized by many awards including the Korea Science Prize, (2001), TWAS award in Chemistry (2001) and Hoam prize (2006).