Faculty

In order to understand and regulate cellular activities for various biomedical applications, it is important to create reproducible and scalable cellular microenvironments that can be controlled in a spatiotemporal manner. Our lab is focused on utilizing innovative micro- and nano-scale technologies to integrate the principles of chemistry, biology, and materials science and engineering to develop biomaterial-based platforms to control the activities of various cell types for biomedical applications.

– Curriculum Vitae

• 2019 – present: Associate Professor, UNIST 
• 2014-2019: Assistant Professor, UNIST
• 2012-2014: Research Fellow, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

 

– Academic Credential

• 2007 – 2011: PhD in Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• 2001 – 2007: BS in Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

 

– Research  Keywords and Topics

 Biopolymer, Biomaterials, Nanocomposite, Tissue Engineering, Drug Delivery

 

– Publications (selected) 

• “Multiscale engineering of nanofiber-aerogel composite nanogenerator with tunable triboelectric performance based on multifunctional polysuccinimide” M. Kim et al. Small. 2022, 18, 2107316
• “Synergistic control of mechanics and microarchitecture of 3D bioactive hydrogel platform to promote the regenerative potential of engineered hepatic tissue” S. Kim et al. Biomaterials 2021, 270, 120688
• “Mechanotopography-driven design of dispersible nanofiber-laden hydrogel as a 3D cell culture platform for investigating tissue fibrosis” S. Kim.et al. Adv. Healthc. Mater. 2021, 10, 2101109.
• “Complex tuning of physical properties of hyperbranched polyglycerol-based bioink for microfabrication of cell-laden hydrogels” J. Hong, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2019, 29, 1808750.

 

– Awards/Honors/Memberships

• 2022 – present: Associate Editor, Frontiers of Bioengineering and Biotechnology
• 2022: MEDIPOST Young Scientist Award, Korea Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society
• 2020: PHI BIOMED Young Investigator Award, Korea Society of Biomaterials