Jun Kim

About  

Dr. Jun Kim is an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Florida Polytechnic University. He received a Ph.D. in environmental science and 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 about 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. 

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 

 Awards and Honors 

• Fulbright Specialist – U.S. Department of State’s Educational & Cultural Affairs, 2025-2028 

• Future Leader, FLC Award – Consulate General of Korea, 2025 

• 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 

• Robert and Eleanor Shubinski Award, Rice University 2015-2016 

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  

• Editorial Board member, International Journal of Membrane and Water Treatment, 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 

Patents Granted/Published 

• 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). 

• US Patent 9,422,168, PP Mane, LH Doan, J Kim, HK Roh, Dissolved air flotation device for liquid clarification (2016). 

Select Publications 

• Keval Patel, Carlos Salazar-Gallupe, Lance-Nicolas Rances, Jun Kim, Karin Chumbimuni-Torres, Woo Hyoung Lee, Development and characterization of a Cu (II) ion-selective microelectrode for in situ profiling of copper release from metallic surfaces in artificial seawater, Surfaces and Interfaces, Volume 71 (2025) 106919. 

• J Baik, Z Mohayman, J Hwang, J Kim, A Kushima, N Kanekawa, E Hasegawa, W Lee, A novel molybdenum disulfide (MoS2)-biopolymer-coated screen-printed carbon electrode for rapid and simple detection of manganese ions in water, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Volume 983, (2025) 119028.  

• 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.  

• 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). 

• Amit Jain, Cierra Weathers, Jun Kim, Matthew D. Meyer, Shane Walker, Qilin Li, Rafael Verduzco, Self-Assembled, Sulfonated Pentablock Copolymer Cation Exchange Coatings for Membrane Capacitive Deionization, Molecular Systems Design & Engineering, 4, 348-356 (2019). 

• Jun Kim, Ion-transport Theory, Electrosorption Mechanism, and Application of Capacitive Deionization, Rice University (2019). 

• Kuichang Zuo, Jun Kim, Amit Jain, Tianxiao Wang, Rafael Verduzco, Qilin Li, Novel Composite Electrodes for Selective Removal of Sulfate by the Capacitive Deionization Process, Environmental Science & Technology, 52 (16), pp 9486–9494 (2018). 

• Amit Jain, Jun Kim, Kuichang Zuo, Qilin Li, Rafael Verduzco, Aqueous-Processed, High-Capacity Electrodes for Membrane Capacitive Deionization, Environmental Science & Technology. 52 (10), pp 5859–5867 (2018). 

• O Monzon, Y Yang, J Kim, A Heldenbrand, Q Li, P Alvarez, Microbial fuel cell fed by Barnett Shale produced water: Power production by hypersaline autochthonous bacteria and coupling to a desalination unit, Biochemical Eng. Journal 117, 87-91 (2016). 

• J. Kim, L. H. Doan, and H. Roh, New Approach to Evaluate the Performance of High Loading rate Dissolved Air Flotation in Seawater, AMTA, Las Vegas, NV (2014). 

• Jun Kim, Lan Huong Doan, and Hyung Keun Roh, Innovative Flow Analysis Method for High Loading Rate DAF, International Desalination Association – Desalination & Water Reuse, Vol. 24, pp. 42-47 (2014). 

• Jun Kim, Hosik Park, Haeryong Jung, JungkwonSeo, and Heechul Choi, Iron Oxide Nanoparticle-Impregnated Alumina for Catalytic Ozonation of para-Chlorobenzoic Acid in Aqueous Solution, Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 225:1975 (2014). 

• Haeryong Jung, Hosik Park, Jun Kim, Ji-Hoon Lee, Hor-Gil Hur, Nosang V Myung, Heechul Choi, Preparation of biotic and abiotic iron oxide nanoparticles (IOnPs) and their properties and applications in heterogeneous catalytic oxidation, Environmental science & technology, 41, 13, 4741–4747 (2007). 

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