His research laboratory focuses on developing new materials for batteries and electrocatalysts using combined experiments and ab initio calculations. His published works in this field have been cited more than 22,000 times, and he was selected as a highly cited researcher in 2018 by Clarivate Analytics. He’s been the a recipient of several awards such as the Energy and Environmental Science Lectureship Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry (2012) and the Science Patriots Award from the Ministry of Science, Korea (2017), and was named among the the 100 leaders in technology by the National Academy of Engineering of Korea in 2017. He is now the director of the Centre for Carborganic Energy Materials, and a director of the Centre of Samsung SDI-SNU rechargeable batteries. He is also serving on the Board of Directors of the Materials Research Society and is an associate editor of the Journal of Materials Chemistry A of the Royal Society of Chemistry.