Jongkook Hwang received his Ph.D. in the department of chemical engineering at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in 2016. After his first post-doctoral training at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, he moved to Utrecht University where he worked on the development of heterogeneous catalysts for preferential CO oxidation in H2. In 2020, he was appointed as an assistant professor in the department of chemical engineering at Ajou University, Korea. His research interest is the synthesis of nanoporous materials with well-defined structures and morphologies for energy- and catalytic applications.