image: Professor Kang Hee Ku (forth from the right) took a group photo with award recipients at the 2022 L’Oréal Korea-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards ceremony. view more
Credit: Professor Kang Hee Ku
Professor Kang Hee Ku in the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering at UNIST has been honored with the Fellowship Award at the ‘21st L’Oréal Korea-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards.’ Fellowship Award is given to talented young women researchers with outstanding potential.
Professor Ku’s research group, PCFL (Polymers & Complex Fluids Laboratory) at UNIST is interested in design, synthesis, and engineering of advanced soft matter. The aim of the research is to understand the physical and chemical behavior of soft matter based on polymer science and colloid/interface engineering. We are currently interested in the following topics of polymer chemistry and physics, colloid mechanics, and soft robotics. Professor Ku obtained her Ph.D. degree from KAIST 2018. Prior to joining UNIST, she worked as an assistant professor of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at Chungnam National University, Korea.
Despite her short research experience, Professor Ku published an invited review paper in the Advanced Functional Materials in 2018, and has been working as an invited editor for Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360) since March 2020.
Meanwhile, the International Awards L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science was created to improve the position of women in science under the belief that “The world needs Science, and Science needs Women“. Hosted annually by the Women’s Bioscience Forum and sponsored by L’Oréal Korea and Korean National Commission for UNESCO, this year’s award presentation ceremony was held at the Fairmont Ambassador Seoul Hotel on July 5, 2022.