1981-1988 Seoul National University, Chemical Education, BS

1989-1992 Seoul National University, Chemistry, MS

1992-1995 Seoul National University, Chemistry, PhD (Major: Inorganic Solid State Chemistry)

1996.3 - 1997.5: France ICMCB-CNRS, post-doc
1997.6 - 1999.12: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), post-doc
2000.1 - 2005.11: ETRI, Korea, Senior Researcher
2005.12 - 2009.6: KIST, Korea, Director of Solar Cell Research Center
2009.7 – 2017.12: Sungkyunkwan University, School of Chemical Engineering, Professor/SKKU Fellow
2017.1 - current: KAST (Korean Academy of Science and Technology), Fellow
2018 - current: Sungkyunkwan University, School of Chemical Engineering, Distinguished Professor
2022.3 - current: SKKU Institute of Energy Science and Technology (SIEST), Director

1. Aqueous synthesis of perovskite precursors for highly efficient perovskite solar cells, Science, 383, 524 (2024)
2. Homogenizing out-of-plane cation composition in perovskite solar cells, Nature, 624, 557 (2023)
3. Lead immobilization for environmentally sustainable perovskite solar cells, Nature, 617, 687 (2023)
4. Unveiling facet-dependent degradation and facet engineering for stable perovskite solar cells, Science, 379, 173 (2023)
5. Rethinking the A cation in halide perovskites, Science, 375, 835 (2022)
6. Stability-limiting heterointerfaces of perovskite photovoltaics, Nature, 605, 268–273 (2022)
7. Scalable fabrication and coating methods for perovskite solar cells and solar modules, Nature Materials Review, 5, 333–350 (2020)
8. Printable organometallic perovskite enables large-area, low-dose X-ray imaging, Nature, 550, 87 (2017)
9. Towards stable and commercially available perovskite solar cells, Nature Energy, 1, 16152 (2016)
10. Self-formed grain boundary healing layer for highly efficient CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite solar cells, Nature Energy, 1, 16081, (2016)
11. Growth of CH3NH3PbI3 cuboids with controlled size for high-efficiency perovskite solar cells, Nature Nanotechnology, 9, 927 (2014)
12. Water photolysis at 12.3% efficiency via perovskite photovoltaics and Earth-abundant catalysts, Science, 26, 1593 (2014)
13. Lead iodide perovskite sensitized all-solid-state submicron thin film mesoscopic solar cell with efficiency exceeding 9%, Scientific Reports, 2, 591 (2012) Highly cited article
14. Selective positioning of organic dyes in a mesoporous inorganic oxide films, Nature Materials, 8, 665 (2009)

▸ Scientist Award of the Month (Oct. 13, 2008, Korean Government)
▸ KIST Award of Month (Aug. 8, 2008, KIST)
▸ Kyunhang Electricity and Energy Award (Oct. 8, 2008, Korean Government)
▸ Best KIST Award (Feb. 10, 2009, KIST)
▸ Dupont Science and Technology Award (May 27, 2010, Dupont Korea)
▸ SKKU Fellowship (Feb. 26, 2013, SKKU)
▸ 100 National Outstanding Awards (Aug. 28, 2013, Korean Government)
▸ MRS Outstanding Research Award (Apr. 24, 2014, MRS, USA)
▸ WCPEC-6 Paper Award (Nov. 27, 2014, Kyoto, Japan)
▸ Hamakawa Award of PVSEC (Nov. 16, 2015, Busan, Korea)
▸ Dukmyung KAST Engineering Award (Nov. 28, 2016, KAST)
▸ Outstanding Paper Award (July 13, 2017, Nano Convergence, Springer Nature)
▸ Citation Laureates (September 20, 2017, Clarivate Analytics)
▸ Highly Cited Researchers (November 15, 2017, Clarivate Analytics)
▸ SKKU Fellowship (Feb. 22, 2018, SKKU)
▸ ACS-KCS Excellence Award (April 19, 2018, American Chemical Society)
▸ Lee Hsun Lecture Award (April 27, 2018, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
▸ Ho-Am Prize (June 1, 2018, Ho-Am Foundation)
▸ Prime Minister Award (July 11, 2018, No. 6912)
▸ Science Minister Award (July 18, 2018, No. 25595)
▸ Highly Cited Researchers (November 27, 2018 Clarivate Analytics)
▸ Scientist award of the year selected by journalists (November 29, 2018)
▸ Highly Cited Researchers (November 19 , 2019 Clarivate Analytics)
▸ SKKU Fellowship (Feb. 16, 2020, SKKU)
▸ Highly Cited Researchers (November 19 , 2020 Clarivate Analytics)
▸ 2022 Rank prize in optoelectronics (September 29, 2021, Rank Prize)
▸ Highly Cited Researchers (November , 2021 Clarivate Analytics)
▸ Highly Cited Researchers (November , 2022 Clarivate Analytics)
▸ Highly Cited Researchers (November , 2023 Clarivate Analytics)
▸ 2024 대한민국최고과학기술인상 수상

1) “Multifunctional Organic–Inorganic Halide Perovskite: Applications in Solar Cells, Light-Emitting Diodes, and Resistive Memory” Ed. N.-G. Park, H. Segawa, Jenny Stanford Publishing; 1st edition (March 9, 2022), ISBN-10: 981480052X
2) “Hysteresis of I-V performance: Its origin and engineering for elimination” in “Perovskite Photovoltaics and Optoelectronics” Ed. T. Miyasaka, Wiley-VCH (2022), Print ISBN: 978-3-527-34748-3, eBook ISBN: 978-3-527-82639-1.
3) “Organic-Inorganic Halide Perovskite Photovoltaics” Ed. N.-G. Park, M. Gratzel and T. Miyasaka, Springer (2016), ISBN: 978-3-319-35114-8
4) “High Efficiency Mesoscopic Organometal Halide Perovskite Solar Cells” in “Unconventional Thin Film Photovoltaics”, Ed. Enrico Da Como, Filippo De Angelis, Henry Snaith, Alison Walker, Royal Society of Chemistry (2016), ISBN: 978-1-78262-293-2
5) “Sensitized Mesoscopic Solar Cells” McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology (2015), ISBN: 978-0-07-183576-3
6) “Perovskite Solar Cell” in "Advanced concepts in photovoltaics", Ed. A.J. Nozik, Royal Society of Chemistry (2014), ISBN: 978-1-84973-591-9
7) "Advanced technologies of perovskite-based thin film solar cells" in “Recent development of perovskite thin film solar cells", Ed. T. Miyasaka and H. Segawa, CMC Publishing Co., Japan (2014), ISBN: 978-4-907837-25-9 C3058.
8) “Perovskite-based solid state hybrid solar cells" in "Trends in Advanced Sensitized and Organic Solar Cells”, Ed. T. Miyasaka, CMC Publishing Co, Japan (2012), ISBN: 978-4-7813-0620-9 C3054
9) “Metal oxide nanostructures and their photovoltaic applications” in Metal Oxide Nanostructures and Their Applications, Ed. Ahmad Umar, American Science Publisher, USA (2009), ISBN: 1-58883-170-1
10) “Research trend of dye-sensitized solar cell in Korea” in "Recent Advances in Research and Development for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells II", Ed. H. Arakawa, CMC Publishing Co, Japan (2007), ISBN: 978-4-88231-665-7 C3054