- 학사 : 전북대학교
- 석사 : Western Illinois University
- 박사 : University of Tennessee

- Professor at Jeonbuk National University (2016.10 ~ )
- Associate professor at Jeonbuk National University (2011.10~2016.09)
- Assistant professor at Jeonbuk National University (2007.08~2011.09)
- Research fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (2001.08~2007.07)

- MOD approach for the growth of epitaxial CeO2 buffer layers on biaxially textured Ni-W substrates for YBCO coated conductors Superconductor Sci. Technol. 16, 1305 (2003)

- Irradiation-free, columnar defects comprised of self-assembled nanodots and nanorods resulting in strongly enhanced flux-pinning in YBa2Cu3O7-delta films Superconductor Sci. Technol. 18, 1533 (2005)

- High-performance high-T-c superconducting wires Science 311,1911 (2006)