Jong-Beom Baek

UNIST

Jong-Beom Baek is a Professor at the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering and Director of the Low-Dimensional Carbon Materials Center at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea. After receiving his PhD in Polymer Science from the University of Akron (USA) in 1998, he joined the Wright-Patterson Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). After four years at the AFRL, he returned to his home country to take up a position as an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Chungbuk National University (Korea) in 2003, before moving to UNIST in 2008. His current research interests include the syntheses of high-performance polymers and the chemical modifications of carbon-based materials for multifunctional applications.

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