Beom Joon Kim, Ph.D
U.S. Permeant Resident
(***) 545- 6029 adgy7f@r.postjobfree.com Boston, MA
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
• Collaborator with 10 years of experience with communication skills.
• Engineer with extensive experience in system design and optimization.
• Researcher with ability to independently resolve problems and actively contribute to research project. (> 2000 citations in peer-reviewed journals)
• Extensive organizing laboratory experience in lab set-up, formulation, planning, development and report writing.
• Demonstrated diverse leadership experience from training students to leading a community and research group.
PROFESSIONAL EXPEREINCE
Postdoctoral Associate Biomedical Engineering
Tufts University Medford, MA, USA
Mar. 2016 - ongoing
• Enabling direct spin coating on hydrophobic surface using aqueous solution for functional electronics and optics.
• Improve a method to overcome the conventional wetting issue through controlling interaction among surface, precursor and solvent.
• Invent a novel universal coating and transfer printing method for building up device.
• Integration of biopolymers in semiconductor devices.
• Implement ultrathin biological layer on conventional electronic device for capturing moisture for low-power operating device.
• Develop and integrate functional electronic device for chemical- and bio-sensing matrix.
• Controlling biopolymer conformation for dynamic, responsive, multifunctional and micropatterned surfaces.
• Combine patterning strategies with stimulus-responsiveness of structural proteins for designing smart surface with tunable morphologies.
• Develop several demonstrator devices. (thermal regulation, smart window and anti-counterfeit applications)
EDUCATION
M.S. and Ph.D. in Nano Engineering
Sungkyunkwan University Suwon, South Korea
Mar. 2010 – Feb. 2016
Thesis: “electrolyte for gating graphene transistor” B.E in Organic Materials and Fiber Engineering
Soongsil University Seoul, South Korea
Mar. 2004 – Feb. 2010
Graduate Researcher Nano Engineering
Sungkyunkwan University Suwon, South Korea
Mar. 2010 – Feb. 2016
• Stretchable field effect transistor based on 2D
materials with printed electrolyte dielectric.
• Demonstrated device based on 2D material with
remarkably good mechanical flexibility.
• Developed human-friendly water-based electrolyte dielectric compatible with biological system.
• Schottky barrier transistor with 2D/organic
semiconductor heterostructure
• Developed a new design of flexible schottky barrier transistor and logic circuit.
• Investigated operation mechanism by various factor
(electrode, semiconductor material and dimension)
• Crystalline nanostructure and morphology of
synthesized organic semiconductor.
• Optimized synthetic organic semiconductor by
computational method.
• Investigated fundamental physical properties using thermal experimental study.
Beom Joon Kim, Ph.D
U.S. Permeant Resident
(339) 545- 6029 adgy7f@r.postjobfree.com Boston, MA 2/2
LABORATORY/LEADERSHIP EXPEREINCE
Postdoctoral Associate, Biomedical Engineering
Tufts University Medford, MA, USA
Mar. 2016 - ongoing
• Lead project team for functional electronic device with biopolymers.
• Installed for new current/voltage measurement. (operated by python)
• Create and update end user technical, documentation, product specifications and supplier procedures.
Graduate Researcher, Nano Engineering
Sungkyunkwan University Suwon, South Korea
Mar. 2010 – Feb. 2016
• Managed project with 10 groups for integrated functional electronic device. (synthesis, fabrication, analysis and demonstration)
• Installed new laboratory equipment, maintained and performed calibration.
• Established equipment procedures and manuals.
• Mentored graduate students on design of experiment, resolving issues, lab techniques and safety.
SKILLS
Fabrication: Photo-lithography, E-beam lithography, Soft-lithography, CVD, PVD, Electrospinning, Electroplating, Inkjet printing, Aerosol jet printing, Bar coating, Spray coating, Spin coating, CMP process Processing: Wire Bonder, Critical Point Dryer, Wet and Dry etching Metrology: SEM, AFM, Digital Image Analysis, Profilometer Spectroscopy: ATR-FTIR, UV/Vis, Raman, Reflectometer, Ellipsometry Material characterization: DSC, TGA, XPS, UPS, DLS, Contact angle Mechanical characterization: Instron
Device characterization: Potentiostat, Current/Voltage measurement Computer: Microsoft Office, AutoCAD, Rhinoceros, Python, Origin, Adobe Illustrator
PUBLCATIONS (full list on demand)
1 under Review, 3 in Preparation
14 first author, 16 co-author paper
PNAS, 116, 43, 21361 (2019)
Advanced Electronic Materials, 2, 8, 1600122 (2016) Advanced Materials, 27, 39, 5875 (2015)
Nanotechnology, 25,50, 5604 (2015)
Nano Letters, 14, 5, 2610 (2014)
Small, 9, 22, 3784(2013)
Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 117, 22, 11479 (2013) Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 117, 20, 10743 (2013) ACS Nano, 6, 10, 8646 (2012)
Chemical Communications, 48, 89, 10978 (2012)
Journal of Material Chemistry, 22, 29, 14617 (2012) Nano Letters, 11, 11, 4642 (2011)
Journal of Material Chemistry, 21, 34, 13068 (2011) Nano Letters, 10, 9, 3464 (2010)
LANGUAGES
English (fluent)
Japanese (fluent)
Korean (native)
HOBBIES
Tennis
Board game
AWARDS AND HONORS
- Postdoctoral Research Program, Sungkyunkwan
University (2018)
- Next generation program, Korean Federation of
Science and Technology Societies, Korea (2018);
- The manuscript “Advanced Materials, 2015, 27, 39, 5875-5881” selected as front cover