Meet the editor

Dr. Yongseung Yun majored in chemical engineering, received his PhD at the University of Utah in 1990, Masters degree from KAIST, Korea in 1981, and BSc degree at Yonsei University, Korea in 1979. He currently works as Vice President at the Institute for Advanced Engineering in Korea. At KAIST from 1981-1984, he researched the oil agglomeration and fluidized bed combustion. For his PhD, he worked on the low temperature air oxida-

tion of coal. At Brown University in 1991-1992, he researched the pretreatment methods to enhance coal liquefaction yield. From 1993 until now, he has concentrated on process developments to produce clean synthetic liquid/gas from coal and wastes including biomass. During 2013-2018, he was the President of the Korea Association of Waste to Energy (KAWET), and is currently the Vice President of the Korea Society of Waste Management, Korea DME Association, and Korea Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (KSIEC). He also served for eight years as Chief Editor for the Korean Industrial Chemistry News of KSIEC.
