Junbeum KIM

Biographical Information

Dr. Junbeum KIM is an associate professor in CREIDD Research Centre on Environmental Studies & Sustainability, Department of Humanities, Environment & Information Technology (HETIC) at University of Technology of Troyes (UTT), France. He is conducting some researches about sustainable resource management for renewable energy system as well as information communication & technology system. He holds a Ph.D. from Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering at Arizona State University (U.S.) on December in 2008, a Master’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (U.S.) and Environmental Engineering from Inha University in South Korea. After 2 years Post-Doc. experiences in University of California, Santa Barbara and University of Minnesota, he joined to University of Technology of Troyes.

Research Interests

• Industrial Ecology, Sustainable Engineering, Sustainable energy and resource management
• Life cycle assessment (LCA) and material flow analysis (MFA) (e.g., critical materials)
• Agricultural and forestry biomass to bioenergy, biofuels and bioproducts systems
• Environmental, economic and policy analysis for systems (renewable energy, information communication technology, products, infrastructures, urban)
• Sustainability network theory and analysis, complex network system

Honors and Activities

1) Honors and Awards

• Invited foreign scholar (teaching 16 credit hours), Beijing University of Technology (BJUT) in China, December, 2019
• Invited and visiting scholar, Inha University, South Korea, December, 2019
• Visiting Scholar, Erasmus Mundus Master in Chemical Innovation and Regulation, EMMC-ChIR (University of Bologna, Italy), April, 2019,
• Lauréat Jeunes Talents France Chine 2018, Ambassade de France, Service pour la Science et la Technologie en Chine, December, 2018.
• Invited foreign scholar (teaching 16 credit hours), Beijing University of Technology (BJUT) in China, December, 2017
• Best paper award, AScoF Spring Conference, May, 2017.
• Russia Tomsk Polytechnic University, The 120th TPU Anniversary Medal and Award, "For the significant contribution to the development and perfection of the educational, scientific, innovation and other activities of the Tomsk Polytechnic University", 2016
• Korea Brain Pool Fellow, The Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies, June-August, 2016.
• Korea Brain Pool Fellow, The Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies, June-August, 2015.
• Program André Mazon (l’Ambassade de France en Fédération de Russie), November, 2015.
• Programme Åsgard fellow, Invitations de chercheurs Français en Norvège, August 2014.
• Taiwan-French Frontier of Science and Engineering Fellow, CNRS, France, 2014.
• Best paper award, The Korea Academia-Industrial Cooperation Society, 2014.
• Taiwan-French Frontier of Science and Engineering Fellow, CNRS, France, 2013.
• Japan-French Frontier of Science and Engineering Fellow, CNRS, France, 2012

• Associate Editor, Environmental Engineering Research, January 2020 – current
• Associate Editor, Resources, Conservation & Recycling, March 2014 – current
• Associate Editor, Recycling (open journal), January 2015 – current
• Associate Editor, Advances in Recycling & Waste Management, 2016 – current
• Editor, Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers, January 2018 – current
• Editorial board of the Korean Institute of Resources Recycling, January 2019 – current
• Journal of Asia-Pacific Business (Guest editor for Green Management and Climate Change in Asia-Pacific Business Special Issue, 2013)

• Conference co-chair, 2019 Europe-Korea Conference, July 15 – 18, 2019, Vienna, Austria
• Scientific committee, 2019 International Conference on Resource Sustainability - Cities (icRS Cities 2019) July 1-3, 2019, Adelaide, Australia
• Scientific committee, XIII International Mineral Processing and Recycling Conference (IMPRC 2019) in May 2019, in Belgrade, Serbia.
• Conference chair, 2018 International Conference on Resource Sustainability (icRS 2018), June 27-29, 2018, Beijing, China.
• US EPA Peer Review Panel – P3 Awards, Topic Q3 Sustainable and Healthy Communities, April, 2018.
• L'Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), Proposal Review Panel, 2017, 2018.
• EU-Korea Conference on Science and Engineering (EKC) 2018, Glasgow, UK, Program and Technical committee Chair for France, 2018.
• Member of Doctoral Monitoring Committee (CIS), UTT, November 2017- current
• Chair, International Seminar on Particulate Matter, Human Health Impacts and Transboundary Issues, December 9, 2017 Le Pavillon du Lac, Parc des Buttes Chaumont, Paris
• Scientific committee, 10th International conference on Computer Supported Education, 15-17, March, 2018
• Scientific committee, The 4th Forum of Korean Expert association of Material Science and Technology in Europe, 27-29 October, 2017, Budapest, Hungary.
• Scientific committee, The 3rd Forum of Korean Expert association of Material Science and Technology in Europe, 15-17 April, 2016, Praha, Czech Republic.
• Scientific committee, 12th Biennial International Conference on EcoBalance 2016
• Scientific & Technical committee, 5th International Conference on Sustainability, Technology and Education 2016
• Scientific & Technical committee, 4th International Conference on Sustainability, Technology and Education 2015
• EU-Korea Conference on Science and Engineering (EKC) 2014, Austria, Technical committee member in Energy and Environment Section, 2014. 

1) University of Technology of Troyes (UTT)
: EV 13 Introduction to Environmental Science and Engineering (Undergraduate class, Instructor, current)
: ME05 Material, Energy, and Waste Flow Analysis (Graduate class, Role: Instructor, current)
: S01 Summer special teaching program on Industrial Ecology and Environmental Management, (Undergraduate students from University of Michigan, USA, and Nanyang Technical Univeristy, Singapore) (Summer, 2015 – Current)
: W01 Winter special teaching program (SeoulTech, 2020 - current)
2) EPF Ecole d'ingénieurs (Sceaux Paris)
: Industrial Ecology (Graduate class, Role: Instructor, current) (Fall, 2016 – Fall, 2018)
3) Inha University (South Korea)
: MFA and Chemical flow and risk management (Summer class, June 2015)
: MFA and Sustainability (December, 2019)
4) Beijing University of Technology (China)
: Special lectures on Industrial Ecology, LCA, and MFA (Graduate students, December, 2017, 2018, and 2019)