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At the invitation of Professor Wang Yujin of the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Professor Suk-Joong L. Kang from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) will visit our university in the near future. During his visit, Professor Kang will deliver a series of specialized lectures on the topic of Sintering Theory. Faculty members, researchers, and students are cordially invited to attend.
Lecture Series Information:
Title: Sintering Theory
Dates: July 7, 9, 14, and 16, 2026
Time: 13:00–16:10 (each day)
Venue: Conference Room 417, Institute for Advanced Ceramics, Building C3, Harbin Institute of Technology Science Park】
Speaker Biography:
Suk-Joong L. Kang
Distinguished Professor,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,
291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 305–701,
Korea
E-mail: sjkang@kaist.ac.kr
Suk-Joong L. Kang is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He is a member of Korean Academy of Science and Technology (1996), and National Academy of Engineering of Korea (2002). He received a Dr.-Ing degree from the Ecole Centrale de Paris (1980), and a Dr. d’ Etat degree from the University of Paris VI (1985). After joining KAIST in 1980, he also served as a Visiting Professor at the Stuttgart Max-Plank-Institut (’82-’83, ’88) at Samsung Electromechanics (’93-’94), at the University of New South Wales (’01-’02) and at the University of Tokyo (’08), and as President of the Korea Institute of Ceramic Engineering and Technology (KICET) (’15-’18).
Dr. Kang has published more than 280 papers on sintering and microstructural evolution in ceramics and metals. Since 2000, he has presented over 100 invited talks at international conferences. He is the author of the text Sintering: Densification, Grain Growth and Microstructure, published in 2005. He developed the “Pore Filling Theory” of liquid phase sintering. Since the late 1990’s, Dr. Kang has particularly contributed to the understanding of microstructural evolution by structural transition and defect formation at interfaces. He introduced the concept of the mixed control of boundary migration, and deduced the mixed mechanism principle of microstructural evolution. Dr. Kang is a fellow of the American Ceramic Society and a member of the World Academy of Ceramics, President-Elect of the International Ceramic Federation (’18-’20). He also served as President of the Korean Powder Metallurgy Institute (’06), the Korean Ceramic Society (’12), and the Asia-Oceania Ceramic Federation (’13-’14), and as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Asian Ceramic Societies (’13-’15). He is the recipient the Sosman
Award from the American Ceramic Society (’11), the Richard Brook Award from the European Ceramic Society (’15), the Helmholtz International Fellow Award from the Helmholtz Gemeinschaft (Germany) (’15), the Inchon Prize from the Inchon Memorial Foundation (’07), and the Korea Engineering Prize from the President of the Republic of Korea (’10)
