Hi! I am Yeonsu Kwak, a 5th-year PhD Candidate in chemical engineering under Prof. Dion Vlachos at the University of Delaware. Before my PhD, I worked as a researcher at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology and Institute for Advanced Engineering, where I worked on hydrogen and biofuel chemical process R&D and scale-up. My dissertation focuses on electrifying catalytic and chemical processes to enable efficient and sustainable chemical manufacturing.

My first-author publications include microwave-assisted propane dehydrogenation (Science Advances, 2023), tandem methane and carbon dioxide upgrading (ACS Energy Letters, 2025), internally-heated ethane cracking (Chemical Engineering Journal, 2025), and scalable oxide-supported catalysts for low-metal dehydrogenation (Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2024), highlighting my role in process intensification, reactor design, materials development, and scalable solutions, as well as collaborating with international teams to tackle complex electrification challenges.