He received a Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from Stanford University in 2005, and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Molecular Foundry in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In 2008, he joined the faculty of Department of Materials Science & Engineering in Korea University. Professor Kim's research is mainly focused on the development of high performance flexible/stretchable electrochemical capacitors based on carbon nanomaterials and on the synthesis and characterization of inorganic nanomaterials for optical device applications. He has been co-authored over 50 SCI papers on nanotechnology, which have been cited more than 4,000 times.