Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea South
Bong Joong Kim has completed his PhD in Materials Engineering in 2008 from Purdue University. He worked as a Postdoctoral Associate in USA before he joined the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)- Korea as a Professor and Dean. He has been the director of international cooperation (2017) and currently the Academic Director in Korean Society of Microscopy (KSM).