Beom Soo Kim is a professor of chemical engineering at Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Korea. He studied chemical engineering at Seoul National University (1988), obtained a Ph.D. in biochemical engineering from KAIST (1993), and completed his postdoctoral work at MIT in Prof. Robert Langer's laboratory (1998). He started his laboratory at Chungbuk National University (2001) and spent his sabbatical in research at Dr. Ching T. Hou's laboratory at the National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research (NCAUR), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Peoria, Illinois (2005). He served as Editor-in-Chief of the Korean Society for Biotechnology and Bioengineering's Journal and is an Editorial Board member of several journals, such as Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology, Polymers, and BMC Biotechnology. He has published over 200 papers and is on the list representing the top 2% of the most-cited scientists in various disciplines, as published by the Stanford University research team. His research interests include high-cell-density culture, biodegradable polymers, polyhydroxyalkanoates, green synthesis and the application of nanomaterials, and drug delivery systems.