Graduate Student
Department of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Email: kwanwoo@mit.edu
Education
B.S. University of Virginia, 2024
Awards & Honors
- Department of Chemistry Undergraduate Teaching Award (2024)
- ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Undergraduate Award in Inorganic Chemistry (2024)
- Double Hoo Research Grant (2023)
- Echols Scholar Program (2022)
About
Kwanwoo was born in Urbana, Illinois, but lived in both Virginia and Seoul, South Korea for most of his life. In 2024, he completed his B.S. in Chemistry at the University of Virginia. During his undergraduate study, he studied rhodium-catalyzed arene alkenylation and Pt-mediated arene C-H activation under the supervision of Professor T. Brent Gunnoe.
