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last updated (16 November 2025)

General Information

Full Name Yunsung Lim
Date of Birth 25th September 1997
Languages Korean (native), English (professional)

Experience

  • 2025.09-present
    BK21 Postdoctoral research fellow
    Research Institute of Advanced Materials, Seoul National University (SNU), Seoul, South Korea
    • Advsied by Prof. Dr. Seungwu Han
  • 2023.07-2024.01
    Visiting researcher in Department of Materials
    Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
    • Advsied by Prof. Dr. Aron Walsh
  • 2020.03-2025.08
    Graduate research assistant
    Korea Advanced Institute of Sceince and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea
    • Advised by Prof. Dr. Jihan Kim
  • 2018.12-2019.02
    Intern
    SK Hynix, Icheon, South Korea
    • Team (DRAM Photo)

Education

  • 2022.03-2025.08
    PhD Candidate in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea
    • Advised by Prof. Dr. Jihan Kim
    • Dissertation title is "Efficient Computational Modeling of Metal-Organic Frameworks for Greenhouse Gas Reduction"
  • 2020.03-2022.02
    MS in Chemical Biomolecular Engineering
    Korea Advanced Institute of Sceince and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea
    • Advised by Prof. Dr. Jihan Kim
    • Thesis title is "Finely Tuned Inverse Design of Metal-Organic Frameworks for Selective Xenon Adsorption"
  • 2016.03-2020.02
    BS in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
    Korea Advanced Institute of Sceince and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea
    • With honors (Summa Cum Laude, 4.07/4.3)

Open Source Projects

  • 2024-
    DAC-SIM
    • Integrated molecular simulation for direct air capture of CO2 in metal-organic frameworks using machine learning force field.

Honors and Awards

  • 2025.09-2026.08
    • Postdoctoral Research Fellowship of BK21 Plus Program
  • 2023.07-2024.01
    • International Research Fellowship of BK21 Plus Program
  • 2018 Spring
    • Department Honors Scholarship

Academic Interests

  • Atomistic modeling
    • Unraveling catalytic mechanisms within the materials surface using the first-principle calculations and machine learning.
  • Data-driven materials design
    • Construction of materials database and screening the constructed database via high-throughput virtual screening method to discover the candidates for the environmental and energy applications.
  • Materials analysis
    • In-depth molecular level simulation using various computational chemistry method to aligh with the experimental results and suggest underlying mechansim for the experimentally validated phenomenon.