Professor Youn-Bae Kang is currently a professor at the Graduate Institute of Ferrous and Energy Materials Technology and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Pohang University of Science and Technology. He brings a wealth of experience, having previously worked at Polytechnique Montreal in Canada, where he focused on the development of thermodynamic databases for oxides and alloys, as well as sophisticated solution models used in FactSage software. Furthermore, he has held positions as a visiting researcher at the Technical Research Laboratories of POSCO, an advisory professor at Samsung Electronics, and an invited professor at Polytechnique Montreal.

Professor Kang's expertise lies in high-temperature experiments for the chemical reactions of metals and non-metals, computational and solution thermodynamics, reaction kinetics, and mechanism analysis. His research interests encompass various important areas, including clean steel production, recycling of industrial waste (including ferrous scrap), low-C emission hydrogen production, and theoretical solution thermodynamics.

In addition to his academic roles, Professor Kang serves as an associate editor of ISIJ Int., a Key Reader of Metall. Mater. Trans. B, and is a member of the international advisory board of Steel Research International. His research outcomes have garnered recognition from prestigious societies such as TMS, ISIJ, ASM International, KIMM, CALPHAD, and NAEK. Furthermore, he held the position of secretary general for the AsiaSteel 2021 conference.