Conference speaker
Talk: Mechanochemistry for Sustainable Energy Materials
Jong-Beom Baek is a distinguished professor/director at the Department of Energy and Chemical Engineering/Center for Dimension-Controllable Organic Frameworks, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea.
After awarding his Ph.D. degree from Polymer Science, University of Akron (USA, 1998), he joined the Wright-Patterson Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). Then, he returned to his home country to take up an assistant professor at Chungbuk National University in 2003, before moving to UNIST in 2008. His current research interests include the syntheses of materials for sustainable energy applications. He has authored and co-authored over 270 peer-reviewed publications in the areas. He has also registered and filed over 80 international and domestic patents. Some of them have been transferred to an industry and also started his own companies for commercialization.