‘Carbon Neutrality’ Authority Jang Yoon-seok, Former Director of National Institute of Environmental Research, Appointed as UNIST Distinguished Professor

September 1 Appointment to Department of Urban Environmental Engineering, Promoting Convergent Research for Realizing an 'Eco-friendly Industrial City'

Jang Yoon-seok, Distinguished Professor at UNIST.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] Professor Jang Yoon-seok, a carbon neutrality expert and former director of the National Institute of Environmental Research, has been appointed as a distinguished professor at UNIST.

Professor Jang assumed his position on September 1 and plans to promote convergent research in the fields of carbon neutrality and environmental health.

Professor Jang Yoon-seok is a leading scholar in South Korea in the field of persistent organic pollutants, including dioxins, and holds the best research achievements in the related field.

He served as the head of the Mass Spectrometry Group at the Korea Basic Science Institute and as a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Hanyang University before joining POSTECH as a professor in the Department of Environmental Engineering in 1997. At POSTECH, he served as the head of the Department of Environmental Engineering and as the dean of the Graduate School of Ocean Science and Technology.

From 2018 to 2021, Professor Jang led the National Institute of Environmental Research under the Ministry of Environment, fulfilling its role as a support institution for carbon neutrality policies.

He currently serves as the chairman of POSCO’s Environmental Advisory Committee and also works as an advisor for carbon-neutral green steel technology. He is a full member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology and the Korean Academy of Environmental Sciences, as well as a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in the UK.

UNIST has recruited Professor Jang Yoon-seok to strengthen its ongoing carbon neutrality projects and to promote various convergent research efforts aimed at transforming Ulsan into an “eco-friendly industrial city.”

Professor Jang plans to oversee research encompassing all areas of carbon neutrality, including climate change, carbon storage, and construction materials?key focus areas of UNIST’s Department of Urban Environmental Engineering?as well as environmental health fields such as air pollution, water pollution, and soil contamination.

UNIST President Lee Yong-hoon stated, “We aim to do our best in research to respond to climate change and achieve carbon neutrality by inviting distinguished scholars from home and abroad,” adding, “We will also help Ulsan to be reborn as an ‘eco-friendly industrial city.’”

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.