Ki-Hyun Kim
Professor
Hanyang University
Korea
Biography
Prof. Ki-Hyun Kim was at Florida State University for an M.S. (1984-1986) and at University of South Florida for a Ph.D. (1988-1992). He was a Research Associate at ORNL, USA (1992 to 1994). He moved to Sang Ji University, Korea in 1995. In 1999, he joined Sejong University. In 2014, he moved to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Hanyang University. His research areas broadly cover the various aspects in the field of “Air Quality & Material Engineering†in connection with advanced novel materials like Coordination Polymers. He was awarded as one of the top 10 National Star Faculties in Korea in 2006. He is a serving editorial board member of several journals (e.g., Environmental Research, Atmospheric Pollution Research, and Sensors). He has published more than 500 articles, many of which are in leading scientific journals like ‘Chemical Society Reviews’, ‘Progress in Material Science’, ‘Progress in Polymer Science’, ‘Coordination Chemistry Reviews’, and ‘Trends in Analytical Chemistry’.
Research Interest
-Development and establishment of detection methods for environmental pollutants (VOCs and heavy metals) along with the establishment of basic QA for those pollutants. -Development and performance evaluation of diverse sorbent materials for thermal desorption of VOCs. -Sorptive removal and regeneration cycle in the treatment of environmental pollutants with metal organic frameworks and metal oxides