Jung Materials Design Group

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Young-Kwang Jung (정영광), Ph.D.

Education

2016–2021 Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea
2012–2016 B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea

Experience

2026-current Assistant Professor, Department of Energy Engineering,
Korea Institute of Energy Technology (KENTECH), Republic of Korea
2025–2026 InnoCore Fellow, School of Energy and Chemical Engineering,
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Republic of Korea
2024–2025 Research Associate, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology,
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
2023–2024 Academic Visitor, Department of Materials, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
2022–2024 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology,
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
2021–2022 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Yonsei University, Republic of Korea

Awards & Honors

2022 UK Research and Innovation — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship
2019 European Materials Research Society — Graduate Student Award
2019 Graduate School of Yonsei University — Research Scholarship Grant

Selected Publications

2026 Halide-site-substituting spacer creates quasi-two-dimensional perovskites for vapour-deposited light-emitting diodes, Nature Nanotechnology
2025 Layer-by-layer epitaxial growth of perovskite heterostructures with tunable band offsets, Science
2025 Dynamic nanodomains dictate macroscopic properties in lead halide perovskites, Nature Nanotechnology
2021 Stabilized tilted-octahedra halide perovskites inhibit local formation of performance-limiting phases, Science
2020 Performance-limiting nanoscale trap clusters at grain junctions in halide perovskites, Nature