Soonchul Kwon received his Ph.D. at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA in 2011. He earned his B.S. in the Department of Civil Engineering, Pusan National University and M.S. in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Iowa State University, in 2003 and 2005. Presently, he serves as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, Pusan National University, Republic of Korea. In 2011–2015, he worked as a Research Staff Member at the Energy Lab, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology. His research areas mainly include coastal structure design for the prevention of natural disaster, low-carbon eco-friendly design for rivers and coasts, non-point source control technology and modeling, high-power fuel cell research, water environment certification based on low impact development technique, high power fuel cell research, and the development of Li-ion batteries.