Curriculum Vitae Won Jong Kim Department of Chemistry Pohang University of Science and Technology A. Academic Appointments 2017.09-Present: Full Professor, Department of Chemistry, POSTECH 2012.09-2017.07: Group Leader, Center for Self-assembly and Complexity, Institute for Basic Science 2012.04-Present: Adjunct Professor, Department of Systems Biology, POSTECH 2011.09-2017.08: Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, POSTECH 2007.08-2011.08: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, POSTECH B. Education and Professional Preparation 2004-2007 Post-doctoral Scholar, Dept. of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Utah 2001-2004 Ph.D. in Biomolecular Engineering, Faculty of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology 1999-2001 M.S. in Biomolecular Engineering, Faculty of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology 1991-1998 B.S. in Fiber-Polymer Engineering, College of Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea (Obligatory military service leave 1992-1994) C. Awards and Honors 2015.09 PSK-Mid-career Researcher Academy Award, Polymer Society of Korea 1 2014.04 KCS- Award for the Advancement of Science, Polymer Division Society, Korean Chemical Society 2013.09 Best Paper Award, 2013 KSEA Northwest Regional Conference, Seattle, USA 2013.08 Young Investigator Award, The 7th World Congress on Biomimetics, Artificial Muscles and Nano-Bio 2013 2012.04 Young Scientist Award, Wiley-Polymer Society of Korea Macromolecular Rapid Communications, The Polymer Society of Korea 2011.09 The KCS-Wiley Young Chemist Award, Korean Chemical Society 2009.09 Best Teaching Award, Department of Chemistry, POSTECH Professor Won Jong Kim’s Biographical Summary Prof. Won Jong Kim received his BSc from Hanyang University in 1998, and M.S. and Ph. D. in Biomolecular Engineering in 2004 at Tokyo Institute of Technology. During his graduate studies with Profs T. Akaike and A. Maruyama, he developed a polymer-mediated DNA detection system. From 2004 to 2007, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Utah under the supervision of Prof. Sung Wan Kim. Currently, he is a tenured full professor at the Department of Chemistry, POSTECH. He received KCS-Wiley Young Chemist Award (2011), Wiley-PSK Journal of Polymer Science Young Scientist Award (2012), KCS-Award for the Advancement of Science (2014), and PSK-Mid-career Researcher Academy Award (2015). He is an associate editor of newly launched journal “Nanotheranostics”, and editorial member of “Materials Today Chemistry”. 2 .