Dr. Il-Doo Kim is a tenured full professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE) at KAIST. He received his PhD degree (2002) in DMSE from KAIST. From 2003 to 2005, He was trained as a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Harry L. Tuller (Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Elecroceramics) at MIT, where he worked on low-voltage ZnO-based thin film transistors, Si-integrated microphotonic circuits, metal oxide-based chemical sensors, and electrochemical devices. He returned to Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) as a senior research scientist from 2005 to 2011. Dr. Il-Doo Kim came to KAIST as a faculty member of DMSE in 2011, and he discovered key electrospinning techniques that have been patented and successfully licensed to 6 different companies including Samsung Electronics and Dupont for commercialization of environmental chemical sensors and energy storage devices. He developed highly sensitive and selective exhaled-breath sensors for the monitoring of specific diseases using bio-inspired nanocatalysts-loaded metal-oxide nanofibers, and also introduced electrospinning processing for producing 1-D metal oxide-carbon composite nanostructures, especially optimized for applications in high capacity and long cycling Li-S and Li-O2 batteries, providing solution to the current limitations. He keep up with the good work on the area of both exhaled breath gas sensors and nanostructured energy storage devices.
Dr. Kim have participated in writing 5 book chapters, published 247 peer-reviewed journal articles (including 40 cover-featured articles), and held 207 domestic & international patents. Currently He is serving as associate editor of ACS Nano, editorial board member of Scientific Reports, Electrospinning, Journal of Electroceramics, and an associate member of Korea Academy and Science since 2012 and a founding member of Young Korea Academy and Science (YKAST) since 2016.