Jinsun Lee

Dr. Jinsun Lee is an Assistant Professor leading the Energy Materials and Sustainability Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST). She was born and raised in Suwon, South Korea. She received her Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) in 2022 under the supervision of Prof. Hyoyoung Lee. She then joined the group of Priv.-Doz. Dr. Harun Tüysüz as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Heterogeneous Catalysis (Director: Prof. Ferdi Schüth) at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research (MPI-KOFO), Germany. In 2023, she was awarded the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship to support her independent research in sustainable energy conversion. In 2025, she joined OIST as an Assistant Professor to establish and lead the Energy Materials and Sustainability Unit.

Experience
2025.10-Present
Assistant Professor, Energy Materials and Sustainability Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan
2025.09
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Heterogeneous Catalysis, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (MPI-KOFO), Germany
2023-2025
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow 2022, Department of Heterogeneous Catalysis, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (MPI-KOFO), Germany
2022-2023
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Heterogeneous Catalysis, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (MPI-KOFO), Germany
2016-2022
Integrated MS-Ph.D., Chemisty Department, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
Awards
2023
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow2022, European Commission
2022
SKKU Postdoctoral Fellowship for Overseas Research, Sungkyunkwan University
2021
Bronze Prize, SKKU graduate student paper award, Sungkyunkwan University
2021
Journal of Materials Chemistry A Outstanding poster prize (15th International conference on material chemistry (MC15)
2021
Songcheon Excellent best prize, Brain Korea 21 plus Symposium on HRD Center for Creative Convergence Chemical Science
2021
Excellent research paper award in XAFS field (Korean Synchrotrons User's Association: KOSUA)
Jinsun Lee
Jinsun Lee
Assistant Professor
2016–2022 Integrated M.S.–Ph.D., Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Inorganic Chemistry
2011-2016 BSc Chemistry, Kangwon National University

Research Unit

Energy Materials and Sustainability Unit

Specialties

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