Prof. Dr. Dong-Kwon Lim

Dong-Kwon Lim is an associate professor at the KU-KIST Graduate School of Science and Technology at Korea University (Seoul, South Korea) (2015~current). After he finished his BS and MS degrees in chemistry from Kyungpook National University (1996), he worked for more than 10 years in the pharmaceutical research institutes of the company in Korea. After he received his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from Seoul National University in 2011, he started his postdoctoral research at MIT (David H. Koch Institutes, Advisor: Prof. Robert Langer Lab) and Harvard Medical School (Children’s Hospital Boston) (2011~2013). He has made pioneering contributions to the field of DNA-based nanostructure synthesis for single-molecule surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and the development of new bio-detection and therapeutic strategies based on organic/inorganic hybrid nanomaterials. Another field he is focusing on is the use of plasmonic nanomaterials as photocatalysts for various reactions, such as CO2 conversion and C-C coupling reactions.