• BS, Chemistry, Yonsei University, 1990
• MS, Chemistry, Yonsei University, 1992
• Ph D, Chemistry, Northwestern University, 1998
• Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Chemistry, University of California, 2001

• Hayashi Jisuke Award, Cellulose Society of Japan, 2021 - 2023

• BrainPool Fellow, NRF(National Research Foundation of Korea), August 2023 - August 2023

• Dean's Fellow, College of Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, January 2017 - December 2019

• Foreign Expert of The Thousand Talents Plan, The State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs of China, January 2018 - May 2019

• PSEAS Premier Research Award, Pennsylvania State University, 2019

• Distinguished Professor, Pennsylvania State University, January 2021

Service to Penn State:

• Academic Leadership and Support Work, Associate Department Head, 2021 - 2023

• Committee Work, Member, Equal Opportunity Planning Committee Proposal Review, 2020 - 2022

• Committee Work, Member, Limited Submissions Committee for Science and Engineering, 2019 - 2022

• Academic Leadership and Support Work, Coordinator, McWhirter Graduate Coordinator, August 2018 - July 2020

• Committee Work, Committee Member, College P&T Committee, August 2018 - July 2020

• Committee Work, Participant, Department Publicity Committee, August 2015 - 2018

• Committee Work, Participant, Materials Characterization Lab Steering Committee, January 2013

• Committee Work, Chairperson, PhD Graduate Admissions, August 2013

• Committee Work, Participant, P&T Committee, August 2012 - August 2018

Service to External Organizations:

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Chairperson, Gordon Research Conference on Tribology, GRC, June 2024 - June 2024

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Chairperson, Gordon Research Conference on Tribology, 2022 - 2024

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Co-Chairperson, Gordon Research Conference on Tribology, GRC, June 2022 - July 2024

• Participation in or Service to Professional and Learned Societies, Chairperson, International Commission on Glass (ICG), 2017

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Co-Organizer, American Chemical Society, July 2017 - June 2018

• Participation in or Service to Professional and Learned Societies, Editor, Journal of Korean Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers, KSTLE, January 2014 - 2017

• Participation in or Service to Professional and Learned Societies, Editor, Journal of Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers, KIChE, January 2013 - 2017

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Co-Organizer, 92nd American Chemical Society (ACS) Colloids & Surface Science Symposium (CSSS), American Chemical Society, 2018