Professor Shin Min-jung of Sungshin Women's University Selected as 'POSCO Science Fellow'

Sungshin Women's University announced on the 1st that Professor Shin Min-jeong of the Department of Chemistry and Energy Convergence was selected as a recipient of the '2024 POSCO Science Fellowship,' sponsored by the POSCO Cheongam Foundation.

Professor Shin Min-jung, Department of Chemistry and Energy Convergence, Sungshin Women's University.

Professor Shin was selected for the POSCO Science Fellowship in recognition of her originality and potential in research, having published numerous papers in internationally renowned journals in the field of next-generation batteries.

After earning her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Illinois in 2019, Professor Shin worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan in 2020 and was appointed as an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Energy Convergence at Sungshin Women's University in March 2021. Building on this fellowship, she plans to accelerate her research on developing hybrid electrolytes to enhance the performance and stability of next-generation batteries.

Professor Shin said, "I am honored to receive such a prestigious award as an early-career researcher. I take this as encouragement for my future research and will strive to contribute significantly to the advancement of Korea's scientific community through fundamental and applied research in the energy field."

The POSCO Science Fellowship is a program that supports young and talented professors conducting basic and applied science research in Korea. It targets early-career professors with less than three years of appointment who have demonstrated outstanding research achievements in four fields of basic science and two fields of applied science. Awardees receive a total of 100 million KRW in research funding over two years.

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