Joohoon Kim
Postdoctoral Researcher, POSTECH Institute of Artificial Intelligence (PIAI), Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
Email: kimjuhoon@postech.ac.kr
Phone: +82-54-279-6806
Office: R1259 RIST Building I
Education
- M.S./Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, POSTECH, Korea (2021 – 2026)
- B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, POSTECH, Korea (2017 – 2021)
Professional Experience
- Postdoctoral Researcher, PIAI, Korea (2026 – 2027)
In substitution of a mandatory military service
- Entrepreneurial Member, Metacloud, Korea (2023 – 2024)
Funded by I-Corps program (Startup investment program by the Ministry of Science and ICT)
- Visiting Researcher, Plant and Food Research, New Zealand (2023)
Host: Dr. Jonghyun Choi
- Visiting Researcher, Northeastern University, USA (2022)
Host: Prof. Yongmin Liu
- Visiting Researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA (2022)
Host: Prof. Juejun Hu
- Entrepreneurial Leader, ThinLens, Korea (2022 – 2023)
Funded by I-Corps program (Startup investment program by the Ministry of Science and ICT)
- Undergraduate Researcher, POSTECH, Korea (2019 – 2021)
Advisor: Junsuk Rho
- Internship, Samsung Electronics, Korea (2018)
- World Top 2% Scientists, Stanford University/Elsevier, 2025
- Editage Grant, 2nd place, 2024
- Presidential Science Fellowship, Ph.D., 2024 – 2026
- Asan Biomedical Science Fellowship, 2024 – 2026
- iCore Lab Start-Up Award, Grand Prize, 2024
- NAEK Wonik "Young Engineers Honor Society" Award, 1st place, 2024
- 3.1 Fellowship, 2023 – 2024
- KIDS Award (IMID), Gold, 2023
- Samsung Humantech Paper Award, Silver, 2023
- Talent Award of Korea, 2022
- KIDS Award (IMID), Gold, 2022
Wide-field-of-view, switchable, multi-dimensional light-field display using a metasurface lenticular lens
Nature [In revision]
300 units per second roll-to-roll manufacturing of visible metalenses
Nature [In revision]
Scalable manufacturing of high-index atomic layer-polymer hybrid metasurfaces for metaphotonics in the visible
Nature Materials 22, 474-481 (2023)[IF: 38.5]
Roll-to-plate printable RGB achromatic metalens for wide-field-of-view holographic near-eye display
Nature Materials 24, 535-543 (2025)[IF: 38.5]
Full-color augmented reality near-eye displays using single-layer achromatic metasurface waveguides
Nature Nanotechnology 20, 747-754 (2025)[IF: 34.9]
A water-soluble label for food products prevents packaging waste and counterfeiting
Nature Food 5, 293-300 (2024)[IF: 21.9]
Anti-aliased metasurfaces beyond the Nyquist limit
Nature Communications 16, 411 (2025)[IF: 15.7]
Polariton condensate far-detuned from exciton resonance in WS2 bound states in the continuum
Nature Communications [In revision]
Amorphous to crystalline transition in nanoimprinted sol-gel titanium oxide metasurfaces
Advanced Materials 36, 2405378 (2024)[IF: 26.8]
Dynamic hyperspectral holography enabled by inverse-designed metasurfaces with oblique helicoidal cholesterics
Advanced Materials 36, 2311785 (2024)[IF: 26.8]
Multicolor and 3D holography generated by inverse-design single-cell metasurfaces
Advanced Materials 35, 2208520 (2023)[IF: 26.8]
Metasurfaces-driven hyperspectral imaging via multiplexed plasmonic resonance energy transfer
Advanced Materials 35, 2300229 (2023)[IF: 26.8]
Professional Services
Proposal Reviewer
Served as proposal reviewer for Israeli Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology
Journal Reviewer
Regular reviewer for Nature Communications, Light: Science & Applications, Microsystems & Nanoengineering, Laser & Photonics Reviews, ACS Photonics, Optica, Nanophotonics, Communications Physics, npj Nanophotonics, Scientific Reports, Optics Express, Optics Letters, Optics and Laser Technology, Nanomaterials, Displays.