He received his Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from the Lehigh University, Pennsylvania and M.S. and B.E. degrees from the Hong Ik University, Seoul, Korea. He worked at U.C. Berkeley from 2007 to 2010 and Argonne National Laboratory from 2010 to 2012 as a postdoctoral researcher. He has 1 U.S. patent, 1 book chapter and more than 20 journal papers. Dr. Tae Jin Kim's research intention is a development of catalytic methodologies that can control hydrocarbon-based reaction pathways. For developing biomass conversion to fuel and chemicals, he has been exploring the new catalyst development/catalyst active sites and providing reaction mechanism/intermediate molecular structures using in-situ and operando experimental conditions. He is currently serving as a director of the Catalysis Society of New York.