Jeyoung Park
Associate Professor
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Jeyoung Park
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Sogang University, South Korea
Jeyoung Park is an associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Sogang University (South Korea).
He received his B.S. (Summa Cum Laude), M.S., and Ph.D. (2012) degrees from the Department of Chemistry at KAIST (South Korea).
After his Ph.D., he worked for 2 years at SK Innovation Co. as an R&D researcher and 8 years at Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT) as a principal researcher.
The focus of his research is on sustainable and self-healing polymers used in industrial applications, with a special emphasis on developing innovative polymer structures that are easily attainable.
Appointments
He received his B.S. (Summa Cum Laude), M.S., and Ph.D. (2012) degrees from the Department of Chemistry at KAIST (South Korea).
After his Ph.D., he worked for 2 years at SK Innovation Co. as an R&D researcher and 8 years at Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT) as a principal researcher.
The focus of his research is on sustainable and self-healing polymers used in industrial applications, with a special emphasis on developing innovative polymer structures that are easily attainable.
Appointments
2022.09 - Present: Associate Professor at Sogang University, Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (Seoul, Korea)
2014.09 - 2022.08: Principal Researcher at KRICT (Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology), Research Center for Bio-based Chemistry (Daejeon, Korea)
2020.07 - 2022.08: Affiliate Faculty at POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology), Div. of Environmental Science & Engineering (Pohang, Korea)
2016.03 - 2022.08: Associate Professor at UST (University of Science and Technology), Dept. of Advanced Materials and Chemical Engineering (Daejeon, Korea)
2012.08 - 2014.08: Researcher at SK Innovation Corp., Chemical R&BD Center (Daejeon, Korea)
Education
2008.09 - 2012.08: Ph.D. in Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) (Daejeon, Korea) Advisor: Prof. Sang Youl Kim
2007.02 - 2008.08: M.S. in Chemistry, KAIST; Advisor: Prof. Sang Youl Kim
2003.03 - 2007.02: B.S. in Chemistry, Summa Cum Laude, KAIST (minor in Business Economics Program)
Professional Activities
- The member of Academy and Education, The polymer Society of Korea (2024) 한국고분자학회 학술위원회 위원:
- General secretary, The polymer Society of Korea: Eco Materials Division (2023-2024) 한국고분자학회 에코소재 분과 임원진:
- Organizing secretary, Korean Chemical Society: Polymer Chemistry Division (2022)대한화학회 고분자화학분과회 임원진 (기획간사): http://new.kcsnet.or.kr/branch_polymer_member
- Organizing committee, Global ESG Forum (Waste: Plastic) parallel with Nature Forum (2022) 2022 글로벌 ESG 포럼, 폐기물: 플라스틱, 조직위원: https://www.globalesgforum.org/ko/esg_guest_04.asp
- Secretariat, POLYCONDENSATION 2022 (2022)
- Special Issue Editor in International Journal of Molecular Sciences (2021~2022): Special Issue "Self-Healing Polymers and Composites"
- Program Committee [Polymers and Environment], IUPAC-MACRO2020+ (2021)
- Reviewer Community Member, Green Chemistry, and other RSC journals (2021~)
- Reviewer Board Member, Nanomaterials (2020~)
- Chief-program organizer of Global Symposium on Bio-based Polymeric Materials (KRICT) (2018~2022)
- Co-organizer of 2018 Fall Meeting of The Polymer Society of Korea (2018)
- Member, Polymer Society of Korea
- Member, Korean Chemical Society
- Member, The Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers
Honors & Awards
- The Polymer Science Advancement Award (고분자학술진보상) in Fall meeting of the Polymer Society of Korea (2024)
- Keynote presentation in INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON DYNAMIC POLYMER NETWORKS, Changchun, China (2024)
- The 1st EYSA·Ecopro Young Scientist Awards-Environment division (에코프로 젊은 과학자상-환경부문) (2023)
- TCI-Emerging scholar award (신진학술상) in Fall meeting of Korean Chemical Society (Polymer Chemistry Division) (2023)
- The Best 100 Technologies among National R&D Projects by Ministry of Science and ICT of 2021 (2021) - 자가치유 물질기반 온도변화 감지필름 제조기술 (오동엽, 황성연, 박제영 외)
- The Best 100 Technologies among National R&D Projects by Ministry of Science and ICT of 2020 (2020) - 비닐봉투용 고강도 생분해성 플라스틱 제조 기술개발 (황성연, 박제영, 오동엽 외)
- KRICT Team-Grand Prize of 2020, KRICT (2020)
- Selected as a Major National R&D Achievement Reported to “Mr. President”: High-performance bioplastics (2019)
- Ulsan Metropolitan Award in Science Technology and Industrial Development of 2019 (2019)
- Excellence Staff Award of 2018, KRICT (2018)
- KRICT Innovation Team Award of 2017, KRICT (2017)
