Wonyong Choi

Wonyong Choi received B.S. from Seoul National University (Korea) in 1988, M.S. from POSTECH (Korea), and Ph.D. from CALTECH (USA) in 1996. He then worked at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 1996 to 1998 as a postdoctoral scholar. He joined POSTECH in 1998 as an assistant professor and became a full professor in 2008. His research interests are mainly focused on semiconductor photo(electro)catalysis and photochemistry for solar energy conversion and environmental applications, advanced oxidation processes, and environmental chemistry. Dr. Choi has published more than 300 articles which have been cited more than 38,000 times in scientific journals to date (H-index 84). He was appointed as Namgo Chair professor (POSTECH) in 2012, elected as Academician of Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST) and Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in 2014. He received Young Scientist Award (KAST) in 2005, KAST Science and Technology Award in 2015, Korea Engineering Award in 2018, and was selected as Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics in 2019. He is serving as an editor-in-chief of ACS ES&T Engineering since Jan. 2020 andhasserved as an associate editor of Environmental Science & Technology (ACS: 2017-2019) andan editor of Journal of Hazardous Materials (Elsevier: 2008-2017). He has been also on the advisory board of Energy and Environmental Science (RSC: since 2008) and ACS Earth and Space Chemistry (ACS: since 2017).