Um, Wooyong Um, Wooyong
  • Rm. 304, Experiment Building 1
  • 054) 279-9563
  • wooyongum@postech.ac.kr
Professor Um, Wooyong
  • Rm. 304, Experiment Building 1
  • 054) 279-9563
  • wooyongum@postech.ac.kr
Nuclear Environmental Laboratory (NEL)

Decontamination and treatment of radioactive wastes, Technology development for immobilizing radionuclides and waste form, Geological disposal and environmental safety analysis

Radioactive Waste Management
EducationEducation
2001
Ph.D., University of Nevada, Reno (Hydrogeology)
1994
M.S., Yonsei University (Earth System Sciences · Geophysics)
1990
B.S., Yonsei University (Earth System Sciences)
CareerCareer

2017.3~present, Professor, POSTECH

2004.3~2017.2, Staff Scientist (V)/ Senior Scientist(II-IV), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), USA

2002.3~2004.2, Postdoctoral researcher, PNNL, USA

2001.6~2002.2, Postdoctoral researcher, Desert Research Institute (DRI), USA

1998.9~2001.5, Graduate researcher, University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), USA

AwardAward

Recipient of Best Research Safety Laboratory by the Ministry of Education, ROK, 2018

Recipient of 2010 PNNL Outstanding Performance Award

Recipient of the 2009 DOE Outstanding Mentor Award

PublicationsPublications

Hyojoo Kim, Hongdoo Kim, Bhupendra Kumar Singh, Jonghoon Park, Juhwan Ahn, Hyung Gyu Park, and Wooyong Um, 2025, “Hydrogen isotopes (1H/2H/3H) separation in solution using graphene transferred on PTFE-reinfored Nafion”, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces,17, 40527-40538.

Jaeeun Kang, Ina Park, Ji Hoon Shim, Duck Young Kim, and Wooyong Um, 2025, “Mechanistic insights into radium adsorption on montmorillonite: DFT and experimental studies”,  Applied surface science, 703, 163406.

Seokju Hong and Wooyong Um, 2025, “Risks of nanoscale byproducts generated during the interzeolite transformation for cesium sequestration”, Chemistry of Materials, 37, 1001-1012.

John S. McCloy, Brian J. Riley, M. C. Dixon Wilkins, Jonathan Evarts, John Bussey, JohnVienna, Paul A. Bingham, Dan Gregg, Michael Ojovan, Sophie Schuller, Kazuyoshi, Uruga, Damien Perret, Elise Regnier, Isabelle Giboire, Wooyong Um, Kai Xu, Ashutosh,Goel, Albert Kruger, 2024, “International Perspectives on Glass Waste Form Development for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste”, Materials Today, 80, 594-618, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mattod.2024.08.025

Bhupendra Kumar Singh, Nurul Syiffa Mahzan, Nur Shahidah Abdul Rashid, Samiratu Atibun Isa, Muhammad Aamir Hafeez, Sarah Saslow, Guohui Wang, and Wooyong Um, 2023, “Design and Application of Materials for Sequestration and Immobilization of 99Tc Originating from the Nuclear Waste Industry”, Environmental Science and Technology, 57, 6776-6798.