Dr. Gibum Kwon

Gibum Kwon is an assistant professor of Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Kansas. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor in 2014, where he developed separation methodologies for liquid-liquid mixtures with a research advisor Professor Anish Tuteja. During his Ph.D., he was awarded Materials Research Society (MRS) Graduate Student Silver Award and Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship (2013). From 2014 to 2016, he worked as a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT. At MIT, he conducted research on the wettability switching of photo-responsive semiconducting materials upon light illumination with Professors Gareth H. McKinley and Kripa K. Varanasi. In 2016, he joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Kansas as an assistant professor. He is a recipient of NSF CAREER award (2020), Wesley G. Cramer Award (2020), and Hanwha Young Faculty award (2021). He has co-authored 20 refereed journal articles, as well as 8 patents of which 2 have been licensed.