I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Loughborough University, specialising in electrochemical energy conversion, thermal-fluid science, and redox flow batteries. I received my PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Changwon National University in 2021, with research grounded in heat and mass transfer, fluid mechanics, and experimental energy systems.
Before joining Loughborough University, I worked as a Research Professor in Korea and as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Heriot-Watt University. My research experience covers thermally regenerative electrochemical cycles, solar redox flow batteries, battery thermal management, and transport phenomena in porous electrodes.
I combine mechanical engineering and electrochemistry to design, build, and experimentally evaluate energy systems from thermodynamic and practical performance perspectives. My current work focuses on flow-battery-based recovery of low-grade thermal energy and advanced multi-chamber cell architectures.
My current research focuses on thermally regenerative electrochemical cycle (TREC) flow batteries for converting low-grade heat into electrical energy. I investigate the thermodynamic relationships between temperature, equilibrium cell voltage, electrochemical reactions, and obtainable electrical work.
My experiments include temperature-controlled charge–discharge cycling, analysis of the cell-voltage temperature coefficient, and evaluation of voltage efficiency, energy efficiency, polarisation, and cycle stability.
I also develop multi-chamber flow cells that allow chemically different electrolytes to operate together while controlling ion transport, crossover, and parasitic losses. A key objective is to increase the low-temperature discharge voltage and net energy output while maintaining a stable room-temperature electrochemical response.
Ultimately, I aim to establish practical thermodynamic and electrochemical design principles for scalable TREC systems that can recover otherwise wasted low-grade heat.