Joohoon Kim received his BS and MS from Seoul National University (Department of Chemistry Education and Department of Chemistry, respectively, Republic of Korea) and achieved his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, USA) in 2007. Upon completing his PhD, he moved to the University of Chicago (Department of Chemistry, USA) and worked as a postdoctoral research fellow until February 2009. Since then, he has been conducting independent research as a full professor at Kyung Hee University (Department of Chemistry, Republic of Korea). His current research interests include synthesizing and using nanomaterials for their applications in chemo/bio-analyses, imaging, and catalysis.