Mu-hyun Baik PhD

Mu-Hyun (Mookie) Baik received his undergraduate training at the University of Düsseldorf in Germany and holds a Ph.D. degree in chemistry from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill (USA). After carrying out postdoctoral research at Columbia University in New York (USA), he started his independent career in 2003 as an Assistant Professor in the Chemistry Department of Indiana University. In 2015, Mookie Baik moved back to South Korea, his home country, to become a Professor of Chemistry at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and assume the position of an Associate Director of the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) – Center for Catalytic Hydrocarbon Functionalization. His research program focuses on utilizing computational methods to analyze and understand mechanisms of catalytic C-H and C-C activations promoted by organometallic reagents.