Water Quality & Treatment Laboratory (WQTL) investigates major water quality issues and develops/optimizes advanced water treatment and resource recovery processes for safe drinking water supply, sustainable water resource management and protection of aquatic ecosystems that are continuing challenging issues in the community of water scientists and engineers worldwide.
RESEARCH FIELD
Water quality and treatment, drinking water chemistry
Oxidation/disinfection processes for water and wastewater treatment
Gravity-driven membrane (GDM) process as appropriate drinking water technology
EDUCATION
2001 - 2005 / Ph.D. School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
1999 - 2000 / M.S. School of Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
1995 - 1998 / B.S. School of Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
WORK EXPERIENCE
2014 - Visiting research scientist, EPFL, Laboratory for water quality and treatment (Prof. Dr. Urs von Gunten Group)
2011 - Professor, GIST-Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology, Schol of Environmental Science and Engineering, Gwangju, Korea
2006 - 2011 Post-doctoral research scientist, Eawag, Water Resources and Drinking Water Department (Dr. Urs von Gunten Group), Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Switzerland
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Since 2013, Editor of Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-environmental-chemical-engineering
Since 2016, Advisory board member of Environmental Science & Technology Letter http://pubs.acs.org/page/estlcu/editors.html
2014 - 2017, Editorial board member of Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology http://pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/journalissues/ew#!issueid=&type=current
2019.October. Co-organizer of 11th Micropol & Ecohazard international conference (IWA), Seoul
2018. Sep, Co-organizer of 3rd Busan Water International Workshop on Drinking water quality and treatment, Busan Bexco
2017. Sep, Co-organizer of 2nd Busan Water International Workshop on Advanced Technologies for Water Treatment, Busan Bexco
2016. March, Co-organizer of Busan Water International Workshop on NOM and Control of DBPs, Busan Bexco
Since 2015, Board member of IWA Specialist Conference on Assessment and Control of Micropollutants and Hazardous Substances in Water
2014, Co-organizer of workshop-oxidation technologies for advanced water treatment: present and future, Seoul National University (supported by BK21plus), April 11.
2011 - 2015 Program manager for International Environmental Analysis and Education Center (IEAEC), GIST. http://www.ists.unu.edu/
Peer reviewers for Environmental Science & Technology (Excellence in review award, 2015), Environmental Science & Technology Letter (Excellence in review award, 2017), Water Research, ES-Water Research & Technology (Outstanding reviewer, 2017), Chemosphere, J.Hazard. Material, Chemical Engineering Journal, Science of Total Environment, Ozone Sci. Eng.
“육상양식장 배출수내 유해물질 처리를 위한 장치개발, 한국해양과학 기술진흥원, 2015 - 2017년 (연구책임자)
“조류, 조류기인 유해물질 및 소독부산물의 수처리 공정내 거동과 제거특성 파악을 통한 정수처리 최적화 (Fate and removal of algae, algal-derived hazardous substances, and disinfection byproducts in drinking water treatment: process understanding and optimization), 미래부-사회문제해결형 기술개발 사업, 2014 - 2016년 (세부참여연구원)
“산화수처리에서 니트로(소) 화합물의 생성: 화학 및 독성학적 특성 분석 및 생성억제 전략 개발 (Formation of nitro(so) compounds during oxidative water treatment: chemical and toxicological characterization and mitigation strategy development) 연구재단-중견 핵심연구, 2014 - 2016년 (연구책임자)
“에코스마트 상수도시스템 개발사업단, 6세부-수질 맞춤형 정수처리 공정개발, 수질오염사고 대응 고도정수처리 모사기 개발, 환경부, 2014 - 2015년 (세세부참여연구원)
“녹조기인 주요유해물질 오염물질 대비 최적 정수처리 기술개발’ KIST OPEN RESEARCH PROGRAM, 녹조방제기술개발, 2013 년 (위탁연구 책임자)
“수처리 공정 및 자연수계에서 산화 및 광화학반응에 의한 신종오염물질의 산화변환: 반응속도, 산화반응 부산물 및 독성변화연구 (Transformation of emerging contaminants of concern by oxidative (photo)chemical reactions in technical and natural systems)’ 연구재단-신진연구, 2012 - 2015년 (연구책임자)
“광주지역 정수장의 오존 및 활성탄 고도정수처리 도입을 위한 기초연구’ 광주녹색환경지원센터, 2012년 (연구책임자)
