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.
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
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
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)
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
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).
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