Dr. Tae-Hyun Bae started his position at the KAIST CBE Department as an Associate Professor in May 2019. Tae-Hyun Bae received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Biological Resources and Materials Engineering of Seoul National University. Then, he moved to the USA and earned his second Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2010. Following a postdoctoral experience at the University of California, Berkeley, he had worked at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, from 2013 to 2019 as an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering. While he was staying in NTU, he also served as the cluster leader at the Singapore Membrane Technology Centre as well as the assistant chair of research at School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering.

The research in his group emphasize two specific areas:
(i) engineering the chemistry and synthesis of microporous materials including zeolites, mesoporous silicas and metal-organic frameworks and
(ii) capitalizing these materials for membrane-based technologies to drive energy-efficient separations for sustainable production of energy and water.

Prof. Yousung Jung received his B.S. degree from Seoul National University and Ph.D. in Chemistry from University of California, Berkeley with Martin Head-Gordon. After a postdoctoral work at Caltech with Rudy Marcus (1992 Nobel Laureate), he joined KAIST in 2009 as an Assistant Professor of EEWS and became Full Professor in 2018, where he also served as the Head of the department during 2014-2017. Recently, Prof. Jung joined the CBE department.

His research is in the area of computational chemistry and data science towards materials applications, and involves the design of new materials, in particular for catalysis and energy applications. Machine learning as well as various novel simulation techniques are utilized to significantly expand the search space of the conventional simulations and increase the prediction accuracy towards reliable materials design. He is the recipient of Pole Medal (2018, Asia-Pacific Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists), KCS Young Physical Chemist Award (2017), Chemical Society of Japan Distinguished Lectureship Award (2015), and KCS-Wiley Young Chemist Award (2013).

Prof. Cafer T. Yavuz joined CBE recently from Graduate School of EEWS, where he has been since he came to KAIST in 2010. He received his BS degree from METU in Turkey, and his MS and PhD from Rice University, Houston, TX. He did postdoctoral work at the University of California, Santa Barbara before joining KAIST as an assistant professor.

In Oxide & Organic Nanomaterials for the Environment (ONE) lab, Prof. Yavuz and his team are working on sustainable nano and porous materials for carbon capture, storage, water treatment and catalysis to offer sustainable solutions for the pressing issues in Korea and abroad. The interdisciplinary projects include PIMs for CO₂ capture and separation, COPs for methane storage, gold capture from electronic waste, dry reforming of methane, micropollutants removal from water and cycloaddition of CO₂ to epoxides.