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Professor

Min Jang has received his Ph.D. degree in civil engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. For more than 10 years, he has conducted a variety of researches related to water treatment at Korea Mine Reclamation Corporation (MIRECO) in the Republic of Korea, as well as at Pennsylvania State University and University of Wisconsin-Madison as a Senior Research Fellow. His previous projects involve environmental nanotechnologies, geochemistry, and process water treatments. He has published over 100 peer reviewed articles on the arsenic and heavy metals remediation, mine reclamation, and advanced oxidation process (AOP). From 2012 to 2016, he served as a Professor of Civil Engineering at University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Now working as a professor at Kwangwoon University, He dedicates his studies to developing economical nano-structured adsorbents and catalysts, for treating organic and inorganic toxic pollutants.

Employment Experiences

2018-present Professor of Environmental Engineering, Kwangwoon University

2016-2018 Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering, Kwangwoon University

2012-2016 Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Malaya

2005-2012 Team leader Korea Mine Reclamation Corporation (MIRECO) under Ministry of Knowledge Economy

2005-2012 Team leader Korea Mine Reclamation Corporation (MIRECO) under Ministry of Knowledge Economy

1996-1998 Research Fellow The Pennsylvania State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Research Fellow

1996-1998 Research Fellow University of Wisconsin – Madison, Civil and Environmental Engineering

1998-199 Researcher Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Environment Remediation Research Center

Education

1999-2003 Ph.D.

University of Wisconsin-Madison 

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

1996-1998 MS

Kwangwoon University 

Department of Environmental Engineering

1991-1996 BS

Kwangwoon University 

Department of Environmental Engineering

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