MEMBERS

Gun Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Urban, Earth, and Environmental Engineering at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea. Before joining UNIST in 2020, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Carle Illinois College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (with Profs. Jeffrey Moore and King Li). He received his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, and his M.S.in Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2016, under the supervision of Profs. Larry Jacobs and Kimberly Kurtis. Before moving to the U.S., he earned his M.S.in Applied Mechanics in 2011 and B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2009 from Yonsei University, Seoul.

He is a recipient of multiple awards and grants, including the Outstanding Paper Award from the Journal Materials and Structure, the Early Career Investigator Grant from the Acoustical Society of America, the Cancer Center at Illinois Research Grant from UIUC, the Outstanding Young Scientist Grant from the National Research Foundation of Korea. With five patents, he published more than 20peer-reviewed journal articles, including his recent first-authored publications in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) and the Proceeding of the National Academy of Science (PNAS).

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