Hee Jeung Oh receives national research award for work in polymers
Oct 7, 2024
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Hee Jeung Oh, assistant professor of chemical engineering and of materials science and engineering at Penn State, has been named the 2024 recipient of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Separations Division’s (AIChE) Fractionation Research Inc./John G. Kunesh Award.
This award recognizes “outstanding contributions to the academic, scientific, technological, industrial, or service areas involving separations technologies,” according the award website. Oh was honored for her research in the development of polymeric materials and processes for adsorption and membrane-based separations. Her work on polymers has contributed to the design of membranes for liquid, gas and vapor separations; resource recovery and recycling; chemical and biochemical manufacturing; environmental remediation; energy storage; and health-related devices, according to AlChE.
Oh has also been honored with the 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, the North American Membrane Society Young Membrane Scientist Award, the Hanwha Non-Tenured Faculty Award and the University of Texas Professional Development Award. She was selected as one of the two recipients of the National Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering grants in 2023 and received the National Academy of Science’s Frontiers Fellowship in 2024.
Oh is the elected co-chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Membranes: Materials and Processes and the GRC on Chemical Separations. She serves on the board of directors for the North American Membrane Society and is the co-editor of the ACS Macromolecules and Macro Letters’ Virtual Issue on “Polymer Physics of Separation Membranes.” She earned her bachelor’s degree from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and her doctoral degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Before joining Penn State, her postdoctoral training was in chemical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Hee Jeung Oh, assistant professor of chemical engineering. Credit: Penn State.
