Seung-hyeon Moon

Seung-Hyeon Moon received his B.S. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Seoul National University, and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. Subsequently he joined Energy Systems Division, Argonne National Laboratory in U.S to develop fermentation and bio-separation processes using electromembranes. Since then, he has been working on synthesis, characterization, and process application of electromembranes. In 1994, he moved to Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Gwangju, Korea. He continued the membrane studies for cleaner technologies and industrial wastewater treatment. Further his research areas have been expanded to application of ion exchange membranes for energy conversion processes including fuel cells, dye-sensitized solar cells, rechargeable battery and aqueous and non-aqueous redox flow batteries based on fundamental electrochemistry and nanoionics to innovate the relevant technologies, including potential measurement in a boundary layer, through-plane conductivity device, and ion channel formation. He is teaching electrochemistry, water chemistry, diffusion, physicochemical hydrodynamics for undergraduate and graduate students. He published over 200 papers and advised over 40 graduate students. He is a fellow of Korea Academy of Science and Technology.

In administration of the Institute, he was the founding chairman of School of Environmental Science and Engineering, GIST, and served as Programme Cordinator of GIST-United Nations University Joint Programme on Science and Technology for Sustainability, Dean of Academic and Student Affairs, Vice-President, Acting President. Also he managed the Energy and Environmental Technology Program in National Research Foundation of Korea (2014-2015). Since Feb. 2015, he serves as the President of GIST.