Prof. Chang-Sik Ha received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Pusan National University (PNU), Korea (1978) and his M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST), Seoul, Korea (1982). He obtained his Ph.D. at the KAIST in 1987. He has joined at the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Pusan National University as a professor since 1982.

He was a visiting scholar for a year four times in USA (Univ. of Cincinnati(1987); Stanford Univ.(1997); SUNY Buffalo(2005); UCLA(2011)). He served as the Director of the Pioneer Research Center for Nanogrid Materials(2010-2016), supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea. He served also as a Vice President of Pusan National University in 2012, an Honorary Professor of University of Queensland, Australia (2013-2015), the President of the Society of Adhesion and Interface, Korea(2013-2014), and Senior Visiting Scholar at the Shanghai Industrial Technology Institute(2017). Recently, he was appointed as the University Distinguished Professor.

He was elected to both the Korea Academy of Science and Technology(KAST) and the National Engineering Academy of Korea(NEAK) in 2004. He has served as an editorial board member of several international journals including an Associate Editor of the Advanced Porous Materials as well as an Associate Editor of the Composite Interfaces and the former Editor-in-Chief of the Macromolecular Research(2008 ~ 2011). His research interests are Polyimides for Flexible Substrates, Organic/Inorganic Nanohybrid Materials, and Mesoporous Materials and so on.