Professor
PROFILE
Adjunct Professor
Quantum Energy Chemical Engineering
So, Byoungjin (소병진)
Current Position
2022 ~ present Senior/Principal Researcher, KAERI
2026 ~ present Adjunct Professor, Nuclear Science and Technology Major, UST
Research Interest
Pyroprocessing, Energy-Environmental materials, Porous materials, Functional ceramics,
Education
2012 B.S. Materials Science Engineering, Inha Univ.
2018 Ph.D (integrated). Materials Science Engineering, POSTECH
Work Experience
2020 ~ 2022 Research Fellow, Friedrich Schiller Univeristy Jena, Germany
2018 ~ 2020 Research Associate, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
Project
Publication
Google Scholar : https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kODOYMMAAAAJ&hl=en
(Selected publications)
- B. So* et al. (2025), “Mechanically-milled YBaCo4O7+δ for oxygen sorbents: insights into oxygen contamination and surface structure”, Nuclear Engineering and Technology 57(10) 10371
- B. So* et al, (2025), “Gyroid ceramic cellular filter using an additively-manufactured sacrificial mold toward off-gas management”, Open Ceramics 23, 100830
- B. So* et al. (2024), “Acceleration of reduction of U3O8 to UO2 by particle rearrangement in a vertically-shaken bed”, Nuclear Engineering and Technology 56 (11) 4837
- B. So et al. (2022), “Cation speciation, compactness, and structure-property correlations in manganese aluminosilicate glasses”, Journal of the American Ceramic Society 105(12) 7171
- Y Ding†, B. So† et al. (2022), “Ultrasound-Induced Mechanoluminescence and Optical Thermometry Toward Stimulus-Responsive Materials with Simultaneous Trigger Response and Read-Out Functions”, Advanced Science 9(23) 2201631 (†: equally contributed)
Professional Activities
- (2022~2022) Ambassador for International Year of Glass (IYOG) 2022, RO10 (Korea&Japan)
Teaching Experiences
– Structural Principles in Materials Science (2020-2022 Winter semester, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany)
– Light-Matter Interactions and Optical Materials Design (2020-2022 Summer Semester, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany)
Honors and Awards
– International year of glass future fellowship, 26th International Congress on Glass (ICG), Germany (2022)