Professor Nam-Gyu PARK

Professor Nam-Gyu Park is a Lifetime Distinguished SKKU Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering and Director of the SKKU Institute of Energy Science and Technology (SIEST), Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU). He earned his B.S. degree in chemical education in 1988, followed by M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from Seoul National University in 1992, and 1995, respectively. Prof. Park has served as a postdoctoral researcher at ICMCB-CNRS, France, from 1996 to 1997 and at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), USA, from 1997 to 1999. Prior to his current role, Prof. Park held key positions, including director of the solar cell research center at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) from 2005 to 2009 and senior researcher at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) from 2000 to 2005. He joined SKKU as a full professor in 2009. Prof. Park is recognized as an elected fellow of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST) since 2017. His expertise lies in the field of photovoltaics, with a career spanning back to 1997. Notably, he made groundbreaking contributions by being the first to report a long-term stable perovskite solar cell in 2012, thereby initiating the research domain of perovskite photovoltaics. Acknowledging his significant impact in the scientific community, Prof. Park was honored as a Citation Laureate (top 0.01% scientist), a New Class of Nobel Prize-Worthy Scientist, on September 20, 2017, and consistently recognized in the highly cited researchers (HCR, top 1% scientists) list from 2017 to 2024 by Clarivate Analytics. Throughout his career, Prof. Park has received numerous awards, including the Scientist Award of the Month (2008), the KIST Award of the Year (2009), the Dupont Science and Technology Award (2010), the SKKU Fellowship (awarded three times in 2013, 2018, and 2021), the PVSEC Hamakawa Award (2015), the Dukmyung KAST Engineering Award (2016), the Samsung Ho-Am Prize (2018), the Rank Prize (UK, 2022), the National Academy of Engineering of Kore (NAEK) Main Award (2024), the Top Scientist and Technologist Award of Korea (2024), and Eni Prize of Energy Frontier (Italy, 2024). Beyond his research contributions, Prof. Park actively contributes to the scientific community as the Senior Editor of ACS Energy Letters and serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for Chem. Rev., ChemSusChem, and Solar RRL.