JSWE-IDEA Water Environment International Exchange Award

摘要

First of all,I would like to express my special thanks to JSWE-IDEA committee for awarding me this great honor in 53rd annual conference held in Yamanashi from March 7-9， 2019. It was a great memory to meet many colleagues and discuss on mutual interests. I completed my Ph.D. at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Then, I continued the study on nanomaterials and membrane filtration at Yale University as a post-doctoral associate. Since I joined KAIST, I have been on expanding knowledge in the area of separation processes including adsorption and membrane filtration for the safe and sustainable water production. My research is largely concerned with overcoming economic and technological barriers of existing adsorption and membrane separation technologies with the aid of state-of-art analytical and modeling tools. I has also tried to merge emerging nanotechnologies with separation processes, and firstly proved the antibacterial activity of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in the aquatic environment. My recent research topics are the hybrid ceramic nanofil-tration membrane for water and wastewater treatment, novel electrochemical systems for CO_2 conversion, environmental applications and implications of nanomaterials, colloidal and microbial interactions with solid surfaces for biofouling control of membrane processes.