Jongyoon Han

Jongyoon Han was a principal investigator (2016, 2021) within the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is also a professor of electrical engineering and a professor of biological engineering.

Jongyoon's research is primarily focused on applying micro/nanofabrication techniques to a diverse set of fields and industries, including biosensing, desalination/water purification, biomanufacturing, dentistry and neuroscience. In 2021, he and his research colleague, Junghyo Yoon, won the J-WAFS Solutions Grant for their research project, 'Off-grid portable ion concentration polarisation desalination unit', which resulted in the development of a lightweight, portable desalination system that produces drinking water from a direct feed of natural seawater. The project has developed into the J-WAFS spin-out company, NONA Technologies, which won the 2022 MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition. In 2023, NONA Technologies was named as one of the top 13 tech innovators helping to save the planet by Newsweek.

Jongyoon won the NSF CAREER award (2003), and the Analytical Chemistry Young Innovator Award (2009). He holds bachelor's and master's of science degrees in physics from Seoul National University, and a PhD in applied physics from Cornell University.