The MSE/CBE International Workshop was held at KAIST on Aug. 7^th 2018, in which 10 esteemed scholars in the fields of nanostructures for next-generation emerging applications, chemical and bio-engineering, and materials innovation for functional applications were invited, including editors from key academic journals and professors from leading universities (MIT, Stanford). They explored opportunities and challenges for the present global problems, extending from energy, environment, and health care to medicine and beyond − all the issues that have been bedrock of KAIST’s scholarship and research innovation. The two departments of Materials Science and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering are leading the emergence of KAIST’s global reputation as they were both ranked 13^th and 14^th in the QS World University Ranking by Subject this year.

Speakers included: Chief Editor of Nature Materials Vincent Dusastre; Editor-in- Chief of ACS NANO and professor at UCLA Paul S. Weiss; Jillian M. Buriak, Editor-in-Chief of Chemistry of Materials; Associate Editor of Macromolecules and professor at MIT Timothy M. Swager; Coordinating Editor of Acta Materialia and Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT Christopher A. Schuh; Editor-in-Chief of Biotechnology Journal and Metabolic Engineering and Distinguished Professor at KAIST Sang-Yup Lee; Associate Editor of Energy Storage Materials and professor at KAIST Sang Ouk Kim; Professor Jeffrey C. Grossman at MIT; Professor Zhenan Bao at Stanford University; and Professor Hyuck Mo Lee, head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at KAIST.