Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology

Overview

Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology

Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) is a public research university in Ulsan, Republic of Korea. It was founded in 2007 as the first Korean national institution of higher education that was incorporated. It also belongs to the four public South Korean universities established to focus on science and technology research. UNIST is regarded as one of the top science and technology institutions in the world.

Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology Key Statistics

The university’s academic structure comprises 15 schools, three colleges, and two departments. These include undergraduate units like the Department of Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering as well as graduate units such as the Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence and the Graduate School of Technology & Innovation Management.

UNIST's student population is approximately 4,700, with over 2,622 undergraduates and 2,000 postgraduates. It employs around 463 academic staff and 884 administrative staff.

The other Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology key statistics include its various high-tech academic support facilities such as the Leadership Center, the UNIST Supercomputing Center, the Center for Teaching and Learning, and the university Library.

Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology Research

UNIST is internationally recognized for its advanced multidisciplinary research, staff, and cutting-edge facilities, particularly in the fields of next-generation energy technologies and high tech materials. It has received $130 million in external research grants and allocates an average research grant of $217,000 per faculty researcher.

The top fields of Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology research are materials science, nanotechnology, and chemistry. Its research outputs have been published in prestigious journals like Advanced Materials, Nature Communications, and ACS Nano.

Its researchers have attended major scholarly conferences such as BPM: Business Process Management, CVPR: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and ICML: International Conference on Machine Learning.

The most cited Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology research publication is Chhowalla et al.'s (2013) “The chemistry of two-dimensional layered transition metal dichalcogenide nanosheets.” This article was published in Nature Chemistry and has been cited 7,098 times.

The university’s second most cited publication is Yang et al.'s (2017) “Iodide management in formamidinium-lead-halide–based perovskite layers for efficient solar cells,” which was featured in Science and has received 4,238 citations to date.

Moreover, the university’s third most cited publication is Bonaccorso et al.'s (2015) “Graphene, related two-dimensional crystals, and hybrid systems for energy conversion and storage,” which also appeared in Science and has received 2,640 citations.

UNIST is home to numerous institutional, national, and collaborative research units. It has several multidisciplinary institutes such as the Division of Urban and Environment Engineering and the Division of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering as well as affiliated research centers like KOGIC: Korean Genomics Center at UNIST and the Hans Schöler Stem Cell Research Center.

In addition, it houses three nationally-funded Institute for Basic Science affiliated research labs, namely, the Center for Genomic Integrity, the Center for Soft and Living Matter, and the Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials.

Further, the UNIST Central Research Facilities provides more than 200 sophisticated research equipment for both internal and external researchers. Its other centralized facilities include the Business Incubation Center and the Technology Commercialization Center.