Jun Kim

Dr. Jun Kim is an assistant professor at Florida Polytechnic University. He received a Ph.D. in Environmental Science & Engineering from Rice University. His academic research activity at the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT) produced numerous patents, research articles, and high-impact journal papers. For 20 years, Kim’s research focused on advanced water treatment processes for residential drinking water, seawater desalination, municipal wastewater, and produced waters from industries. Kim holds professional leadership roles in the water industry and worked for global companies for 12 years.

Awards and Honors

• The Young Faculty of the Year Award – KSCEA, 2024
• Next Generation Leadership Award, WQA, 2021
• Best Paper Awards, COMSOL, 2019
• Constancio Miranda Fellowship, Rice University, 2019
• Certificate of Merit, American Chemical Society (ACS), 2018

Education

• Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Engineering, Rice University, 2020
• M.S. in Environmental Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, 2007
• B.S. in Spatial Environmental System Engineering, Computer Science (minor), Handong University, 2005

Expertise

• Water treatment process (advanced membrane, electrochemical treatment, pre- and post- physicochemical treatment, seawater desalination, groundwater desalting, high-rate algae removal, residential wastewater treatment, industrial produced water treatment)
• Material characterization
• Water quality analysis
• Simulation and modeling
• Commercialization (product/process design, engineering documentation, field/pilot testing, IP)

Professional Activities

• Technical Advisory Committee, Florida Industrial and Phosphate Research (FIPR) Institute, 2024-present
• Voting Member, NSF Joint Committee (JC) on DWTU, 2023-present
• Scholarship Committee, Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA), 2023-present
• Voting Member, Water Sciences Think Tank Advisory Council, Water Quality Association (WQA), 2021-present
• Committee Member, Education and Training Council, AWWA, 2020-present

Select Publications

• CY Son, JK Kang, YJ Lee, CG Lee, J Kim, SJ Park, YM Cho, GA Shin, Degradation of residual dyes in actual textile wastewater using UV/H2O2: Evaluation of the impact of operating variables through multi-layer perceptron analysis, Environmental Engineering Research, Volume 29 (2024) 23-716.
• Jun Kim, Patrick Zhang, Purification of Phosphoric Acid Manufacturing Process Water with Recovery of Critical Materials using MCDI, US-Korea Conference on Science, Technology, and Entrepreneurship (UKC) 2023.
• US Patent 11,739,010, R Verduzco, A Jain, J Kim, Q Li, K Zuo, Electrodes for selective removal of multivalent ions through capacitive deionization (2023).
• E Yang, M Kim, Y Liang, J Byun, H Kim, J Kim, H Choi, Tailoring the pore size of intermolecular cross-linked PIMs-based thin-film composite hollow fiber membranes using different length cross-linkers for organic solvent nanofiltration, Chemical Engineering Journal 474, 145339 (2023).
• Eva Gil, Xiaochuan Huang, Kuichang Zuo, Jun Kim, Susana Rincón, José María Rivera, Kiarash Ranjbari, François Perreault, Pedro Alvarez, Alejandro Zepeda, Qilin Li, A Polysulfone/Cobalt Metal–Organic Framework Nanocomposite Membrane with Enhanced Water Permeability and Fouling Resistance, ACS Applied Polymer Materials 4 (5), 3532-3542 (2022)
• Ziqi Wu, Himel Barua, Jolanta R. Rylski, Joshua B. Taylor, and Jun Kim, A multiple regression model framework for designing a UVC LED reactor for point-of-use water treatment, Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, 2021, 7, 1516-1529. (2021)
• Zuo, Kuichang; Huang, Xiaochuan; Liu, Xingchen; Gil, Eva; Kim, Jun; Jain, Amit; Chen, Long; Liang, Peng; Zepeda, Alejandro; Verduzco, Rafael; Lou, Jun; Li, Qilin, A Hybrid Metal-Organic Framework-Reduced Graphene Oxide Nanomaterial for Selective Removal of Chromate from Water in an Electrochemical Process, Environmental Science & Technology, 54 (20), 13322-13332 (2020).
• Jun Kim, Amanda Morgott, Ziqi Wu, Liane Hopaluk, Michael Miles, William Stoner, Qilin Li, Simulating Transport and Adsorption of organic contaminants in 3D Porous Activated Carbon Block Media, COMSOL 2019 Boston, MA (2019).
• Jun Kim, Amit Jain, Kuichang Zuo, Rafael Verduzco, Qilin Li, Selective Removal of Calcium Ions from Water Using Target-ion Specific Capacitive Deionization, Water Research, 160, 445-453 (2019).
• Stephanie Loeb, Jun Kim, Chenxi Jiang, Lawrence Early, Haoran Wei, Qilin Li, Jae-Hong Kim, Nanoparticle Enhanced Interfacial Solar Photothermal Water Disinfection Demonstrated in 3-D Printed Flow-Through Reactors, Environmental Science & Technology, 53, 13, 7621-7631 (2019).