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Min-Kyu Paek has been appointed Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering

Ph.D. Min-Kyu Paek has been appointed five-year fixed term Assistant Professor position at the Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering as of 1 September 2024. The field of the professorship is Metallurgy.
Min-Kyu Paek
Min-Kyu Paek

Paek received his doctorate from Graduate School of Hanyang University (South Korea) in 2014. After his defence, he has worked as a researcher at McGill University (Canada), Seoul National University and Hanyang University (South Korea), Aalto University School of Chemical Engineering and at Umicore Company in Belgium.  He is currently working as Senior Researcher, at Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology, South Korea.

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