Joon-wan Kim received his Bachelor of Science from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the POSTECH in 1999. He received his Master of Science (2002) and Ph.D. (2005) at the Department of Precision Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo. From 2002 to 2005, he was also a Junior Research Associate at Materials Fabrication Laboratory, RIKEN. As an assistant professor, he worked at the Precision and Intelligence Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, from 2005 to 2013. He has been an Associate Professor at the Institute of Innovative Research (IIR), Tokyo Institute of Technology. He has also been a visiting academic fellow at the Department of Engineering, the University of Cambridge, since August 2021. His current interests are micromachining and MEMS for functional fluid devices.