2015-2021: Ph.D., Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Thesis: “Understanding the behavior of copper ions in Cu-SSZ-13 under selective catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides with ammonia” (Advisor: Prof. Do Heui Kim)

2011-2025: B.S., Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

2026 – present. Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul, Republic of Korea

2022 - 2026. Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America (Advisor: Prof. Alexander Katz)

2021 – 2022 Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Advisor: Prof. Do Heui Kim)

Energy and Environmental Catalysis, Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS), Sustainable Chemistry

Hwangho Lee, Anvitha Puritipati, Youngkyu Park, Oleg Mironov, Son-Jong Hwang, Stacey I. Zones, and Alexander Katz* “Coordinatively Unsaturated Aluminum Enables Methanol-Selective CO2 Hydrogenation With Zeolite-Supported Copper Catalysts” Angewandte Chemi, International Edition, 65, 18, e25717 (2026)

Hwangho Lee, Kun-Lin Wu, Dan Xie, Le Xu, Alexander Okrut, Stacey I. Zones, Ambarish Kulkarni* and Alexander Katz* “Understanding Water Enhancement of CO2 Adsorption in Zeolite Cs-RHO” Chemistry of Materials, 36, 24, 11947–11957 (2024)

Hwangho Lee, Shu Hikima, Ryohji Ohnishi, Takahiko Takewaki, Alexander Katz* “Privileged zeolitic sites for humid CO2 adsorption: K+ in double eight-membered rings” Chemical Communications, 60, 10140-10143 (2024)

Hwangho Lee, Dan Xie, Stacey I. Zones, Alexander Katz* “CO2 desorbs water from K-MER zeolite under equilibrium control”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 146, 1, 68-72 (2024)

Hwangho Lee, Inhak Song, Se Won Jeon, Keon Ha Hwang, and Do Heui Kim* “Regeneration of a sulfur-poisoned selective catalytic reduction catalyst at ambient conditions”, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 341, 123333 (2024)

Inhak Song, Hwangho Lee, Se Won Jeon, Ismail A. M. Ibrahim, Joonwoo Kim, Youngchul Byun, Dong Jun Koh, Jeong Woo Han, Do Heui Kim* “Simple physical mixing of zeolite prevents sulfur deactivation of vanadia catalysts for NOx removal” Nature Communications, 12, 901 (2021) – Selected as Nature Communications editor’s highlight