Kyung-Wan Nam is a professor at the Department of Energy and Materials Engineering, Dongguk University-Seoul, South Korea. He received his B.S. (1998), M.S. (2000), and Ph.D. (2005) in Metallurgical Engineering from Yonsei University, South Korea. In 2006, he joined the Chemistry Department of Brookhaven National Laboratory as a research associate and worked as a staff scientist from 2009 until 2014. His research focuses on materials for advanced Li- and Na-ion batteries, all-solid-state batteries, supercapacitors, and developing new in situ characterization tools using synchrotron-based X-ray techniques.