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Biography

Ho Bum Park is a full professor of Energy Engineering at Hanyang University (HYU, Seoul, Republic of Korea). He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from HYU in 2002 and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) from 2005 to 2008. Since 2008, he has established a state-of-the-art research laboratory for advanced membrane research at HYU, as well as a dozen research collaborations and international scholar exchange programs. During his tenure at HYU, he has published more than 200 peer-reviewed SCI papers, including many in top-tier scientific journals, contributed 10 book chapters, and filed more than 110 patents. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Membrane Society of Korea (MSK) for 17 years. He currently serves as Chair of the Department of Energy Engineering at Hanyang University. He has organized many international and national conferences and served as an editorial board member of five scientific journals related to chemical engineering and materials science and engineering.

He currently leads a multidisciplinary research group focusing on the rapid and selective transport of small molecules and ions in a variety of novel membrane materials including polymers, nanomaterials and inorganic materials for carbon dioxide separation, desalination, fuel cell and battery applications. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the HYU Distinguished Research Fellow Award (2016), MSIP National Excellent Research Award (Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning) (2014), HYU Outstanding Teachers Award (2013), MOST National Outstanding Research Award (Ministry of Science and Technology) (2007), and Outstanding Young Scientist Award (North American Membrane Society) (2007).

RSC affiliations

• Editorial board, RSC Applied Polymers