Soo Young Kim is a professor at the Korea University in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He is interested in the modulation of the properties of 2-dimensional materials, halide perovskites, metal-organic frameworks, and multi-component single-atom catalysts, and their applications in various fields such as organic photovoltaics, perovskite solar cells, light emitting diodes, gas sensors, hydrogen evolution reactions, and carbon dioxide reduction reactions.