Jongwoo Lim is an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry at Seoul National University (SNU). His research focuses on developing renewable energy applications to address climate change. He earned his BSc in chemistry from the Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea in 2008 and his PhD in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley under the guidance of Professor Peidong Yang in 2013. Before joining SNU in 2017, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University under the supervision of Professor William Chueh. He has received several honors, including the Su-Moon Park Award from Korean Electrochemical Society (2024), Young Scientist Award from the President of South Korea (2023), the KCS-Wiley Young Chemist Award (2023), the Research Award from the SNU College of Science (2023), and the MRS Graduate Student Award Silver (2013). In 2023, Jongwoo was also elected as a member of Y-KAST.