Current Affiliation: Professor, School of Chemical Engineering, SKKU Advanced Institute of Nano Technology, Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea

Jaehoon Kim is a prominent Korean expert in supercritical fluid chemistry, green energy materials, and sustainable chemical processes. He leads the Green Energy Material and Process (GEMP) Laboratory at Sungkyunkwan University, focusing on solving global environmental and energy challenges via innovative supercritical fluid-based green chemistry and clean engineering technologies.

He earned his Ph.D. degree from North Carolina State University, USA. He conducted prestigious postdoctoral research as a National Research Council Research Associate at the U.S. Army Research Office from 2005 to 2007. Afterwards, he served as a senior researcher at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) from 2007 to 2013. He joined Sungkyunkwan University as a faculty member and has been devoted to cultivating high-level academic talents and advancing industrial green process technologies for decades.

His research focuses on four core interconnected directions: controllable synthesis of functional nanostructured materials in supercritical media, high-performance energy storage electrode materials for next-generation batteries, catalytic conversion of CO₂ and biomass into value-added fuels and chemicals, and scalable supercritical fluid green manufacturing and separation processes. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed journal articles in top-tier journals including Nano Energy, Green Chemistry, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Carbon and Applied Energy. He maintains extensive academic and industrial collaborations to promote the industrial translation of supercritical fluid technology, green energy materials and renewable chemical production.