Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science / Graduate Program in System Health and Engineering
Professor Jonggeol Na received his B.S. (2013, Cum Laude, Minor in Economics) and Ph.D. (2018) in Chemical and Biological Engineering from Seoul National University. During his doctoral studies, he was a visiting researcher in the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT. After earning his degree, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Clean Energy Research Center at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) and the Department of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He joined the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at Ewha Womans University as an Assistant Professor in 2020. In 2025, he was promoted to Associate Professor and selected as an ‘Ewha Young Fellow,’ an honor awarded to outstanding next-generation researchers. His primary research focuses on ‘Autonomous Process Design,’ which integrates process systems engineering (PSE), artificial intelligence (AI), multi-scale simulation, and mathematical optimization. Going beyond traditional new materials development, his group utilizes Self-Driving Laboratories (SDL) combining AI and robotics to design innovative chemical processes aimed at achieving 'new process carbon neutrality' and establishing circular economy systems. His research has been published in top-tier international journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Chemical Engineering, Chemical Society Reviews, ACS Catalysis, ACS Energy Letters, and Chemical Science. Notably, his 2019 Nature Communications paper on the techno-economic analysis of electrochemical CO₂ conversion has become a standard reference in the field. Currently, Prof. Na serves as a key member and the leader of the Self-Driving Laboratory (SDL) division at the Institute for Multiscale Matter and Systems (IMMS), launched under the Ministry of Science and ICT’s National Research Laboratory 2.0 (NRL 2.0) initiative. In this role, he is at the forefront of building next-generation research infrastructure that drastically accelerates the discovery of new materials and optimal processes through AI and robotic automation. He also heads the research division of the BK21 System Health Convergence Major. Starting in 2026, he is spending a one-year sabbatical in the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT, further expanding his global research network. In recognition of his research excellence, he has received the Miwon Young Scientist Award (2024), the Ewha Outstanding Research Award (2024), and the AIChE CACE Best Paper Award (2022), following his earlier achievement as a recipient of the Presidential Science Scholarship (2009–2013). Prof. Na's laboratory is actively recruiting passionate graduate students from diverse backgrounds—including chemical engineering, artificial intelligence, robotics, and materials science—who want to help pioneer the "era where AI autonomously designs experiments and processes."



2025-2nd
Process Control Systems
2025-1st
Chemical Process Design
Chemical Engineering Mathematics
Introduction to System Health
Introduction to System Health
2024-2nd
Process Control Systems
Systems Science Machine Learning
2024-1st
Chemical Engineering Lab Ⅱ
Chemical Process Design
Chemical Engineering Mathematics
Advanced Convergent Materials for System Healthcare
2023-2nd
Process Control Systems
Systems Science Machine Learning
2023-1st
Chemical Process Design
Chemical Engineering Mathematics
Introduction to System Health 강의 계획서 상세보기
Advanced convergent materials for system healthcare
Introduction to System Health
Seoul Nat'l Univ. 공학박사(화학생물공학부)
Seoul Nat'l Univ. 공학사(화학생물공학부)
Carnegie Mellon University 2019-07-01 ~ 2020-02-29
한국과학기술연구원(KIST) 2018-03-01 ~ 2019-06-21
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Visiting Scholar 2026-03-01 ~ 2027-02-28
신진이화펠로우2025-03-01
연구실적우수(우수)2024-03-01
Computers & Chemical Engineering (CACE) Best Paper Award (Elsevier)2022-11-15
Miwon Young Scientist Award (한국공업화학회)2024-05-09