Biography
Dr. Woo Soo Kim joined Simon Fraser University (SFU), located in British Columbia Canada, in September 2010 as a tenure-track Assistant Professor and promoted to Associate Professor in 2016. He was selected in 2017 as a Brain Pool Fellow for his sabbatical leave at Seoul National University in Korea and stayed at Swiss Federal Laboratories of Materials Science and Testing, Empa in ETH Domain as a visiting professor in 2018. Prior to joining SFU, he was a Senior Research Scientist in Xerox Corporation (XRCC) for two years after the period of a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for two and half years. He received BSc degree from Yonsei University in 2001 and MSc and PhD degrees from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in the Department of Material Engineering. He was the winner of Quadrant Award 2007, international PhD thesis competition. And he received Hanwha Corporation’s New Faculty Award in 2016. His research interest is broad in the field of Additive Manufacturing for energy and sensing applications.
