Professor Tae-Hun Lee (College of Engineering, Division of Electronic Materials Engineering) has been selected as a new fellow for the 2026 POSCO Science Fellowship, hosted by the POSCO Cheongam Foundation.

The POSCO Cheongam Foundation's POSCO Science Fellowship is a program that selects and supports early-career faculty at Korean universities. It provides support to approximately 30 researchers each year in basic sciences (mathematics, physics, chemistry, life sciences) and applied sciences (metals, advanced materials, energy materials).

This year, 440 early-career faculty from 75 universities nationwide submitted applications, resulting in a fierce competition rate exceeding 14 to 1.

Professor Lee conducts research on the design and development of next-generation energy materials based on AI and computational modeling methodologies. He has published numerous papers in leading international journals such as the Journal of the American Chemical Society, ACS Energy Letters, and Advanced Functional Materials.

He received his Ph.D. in 2019 from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Yonsei University, served as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Chemistry at Princeton University, and has been mentoring students in the Division of Electronic Materials Engineering at Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) since 2023.

He said, "I will use this fellowship to actively adopt AI-based research methodologies and accelerate the development of next-generation energy materials."