He received his PhD from the University of British Columbia in Canada in 2004. Afterwards he spent some time as postdoctoral researcher at the same university, before moving to the University of Texas in Austin (USA) in 2005 and then to the University of Waterloo, Canada in 2007. From 2008 to 2017 he held a faculty position at Yeungam University. Since 2017 he has a position as Associate Professor at Chungnam National University with broad research interests in Physical Chemistry, Spectroscopy, Surface Chemistry, Catalysis, Energy and Environments.