Prof. Joohyun Park

Director of the Laboratory for the High Temperature Physicochemical Processing of Materials (HiTeP2), Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering

Prof. Joohyun Park was a senior research scientist in the Technical Research Laboratories, POSCO, for 7 years and now performing research focusing on i) inclusion science and engineering, ii) slag science and technology, iii) sustainable ferrous- and non-ferrous metallurgy for carbon neutral society, etc. He has been an Affiliated Professor in KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and a Guest Professor in USTB.

He was selected as a recipient of the Iron- and Steelmaking Technology Award (2005) and Best Patent Award (2006) by POSCO; the Best Young Scientist Award (2012) and Chungwoong Award (2021) by Korea Institute of Metals and Materials; the Marcus Grossmann Young Author Award (2014), TMS-EPD Science Award (2020), and Key Reader Award (2021) by TMS; the Sawamura Award (2017) by Iron & Steel Institute of Japan; the Minister Award (2021) by Korean Government (Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, MOTIE).

He has granted about 30 (International and Korean) patents and published 200 peer-reviewed articles with 460 conference presentations.