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Seong Kim

Department Head, Walter L. Robb Family Endowed Chair

Affiliation(s):

  • Chemical Engineering
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121D Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Building

shk10@psu.edu

814-863-4809

Personal or Departmental Website

Google Scholar Profile

Research Areas:

Energy and Environment; Interfaces and Surfaces

Interest Areas:

Tribology, Glass Surface, and Cellulosic Nanomaterials: Surface science, nano-materials, nano-tribology, glass, biomass, catalysis

 
 

 

Education

  • Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Chemistry, University of California, 2001

Publications

Research Projects

Honors and Awards

  • Hayashi Jisuke Award, Cellulose Society of Japan, 2021 - 2023
  • BrainPool Fellow, NRF(National Research Foundation of Korea), August 2023 - August 2023
  • Dean's Fellow, College of Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, January 2017 - December 2019
  • Foreign Expert of The Thousand Talents Plan, The State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs of China, January 2018 - May 2019
  • PSEAS Premier Research Award, Pennsylvania State University, 2019

Service

Service to Penn State:

  • Committee Work, Committee Member, OSVPR, Research Impacts Working Group, October 2024
  • Academic Leadership and Support Work, Associate Department Head, 2021 - 2023
  • Committee Work, Member, Equal Opportunity Planning Committee Proposal Review, 2020 - 2022
  • Committee Work, Member, Limited Submissions Committee for Science and Engineering, 2019 - 2022
  • Academic Leadership and Support Work, Coordinator, McWhirter Graduate Coordinator, August 2018 - July 2020
  • Committee Work, Committee Member, College P&T Committee, August 2018 - July 2020
  • Committee Work, Participant, Department Publicity Committee, August 2015 - 2018
  • Committee Work, Participant, Materials Characterization Lab Steering Committee, January 2013
  • Committee Work, Chairperson, PhD Graduate Admissions, August 2013
  • Committee Work, Participant, P&T Committee, August 2012 - August 2018

Service to External Organizations:

  • Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Chairperson, Gordon Research Conference on Tribology, 2022 - 2024
  • Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Co-Organizer, 92nd American Chemical Society (ACS) Colloids & Surface Science Symposium (CSSS), American Chemical Society, July 2017 - June 2018
  • Participation in or Service to Professional and Learned Societies, Chairperson, International Commission on Glass (ICG), 2017 - 2022
  • Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Other, Continuing Symposium Chair, American Chemical Society (ACS), 2011 - 2014
  • Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Co-Chairperson, Gordon Research Conference on Tribology, 2022