Honors and Awards

2024: Hanseong Science Award (Hanseong SonJaeHan Scholarship Foundation)

2024: Selected for the KAIST's Top 10 Research Achievements of 2023

2024: Fellow of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST)

2023: RIGAKU-ACCC Award (Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry, ACCC)

2022: KAIST Endowed Chair Professorship

2021: The Year Award for Women in Science and Technology

2021: S-Oil Next-Generation Scientist Award (S-Oil Science Prodigy & Culture Foundation & The Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST))

2020: JACS (2020, 142, 8183) 연구성과 - 2020 국내 바이오분야 연구성과 및 뉴스 Top 5 선정 (바이오융합부분) (BRIC)

2020: Asian Biological Inorganic Chemistry (AsBIC) James Hoeschele Award

2020: International Cooperation Award, KAIST

2020: Research Award, Department of Chemistry, KAIST

2019: Member of the Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology (Y-KAST) 

2018: Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SBIC) Early Career Award

2018: Yong Inorganic Chemist Award, KCS Inorganic Division

2017: JACS (2017, 139, 2234) 연구성과 - 2017 국내 바이오분야 연구성과 및 뉴스 Top 5 선정 (바이오융합부분) (BRIC)

2016: Award for "30 Young Scientists of Korea" to Lead Basic Science Research for the Next 30 Years (POSTECH & Dong-A ILBO)

2016: Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ) Distinguished Lectureship Award

2016: Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)

2015: Emerging Bioinorganic Investigator, ACS Journals (JACS, Inorganic Chemistry, ACS Chemical Biology, ACS Chemical Neuroscience)

2015: KCS-Wiley Young Scientist Award

2014: UNIST Outstanding Performance Award

2014: Emerging Investigator, RSC Chemical Communications

2013: NSF Career Award

2012: The Scientist Development Award from the American Heart Association

2012: Alfred Sloan Research Fellowship

2012: ACS Women Chemists Committee Leadership

2012: The Paul Saltman Award, Metals in Biology Gordon Conference (2012)

2010: Alzheimer's Association New Investigators Award

2010: The Gray Family Fund Young Investigator at the Metals in Medicine Gordon Conference (2010)

2008: Biological Sciences Scholar, University of Michigan

2007: ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Young Investigator Award

2006 - 2008: Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP), CA, USA, Postdoctoral Fellowship

2005 - 2006: Martin Family Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA, Graduate Student Fellowship

2001 - 2002: Korea Science & Engineering Foundation (KOSEF), Seoul, Korea, Research Fellowship, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea

1999 - 2001: Ewha Graduate Research Fellowship and Research Fellowship from the Brain Korea 21 Project

1998: Honor of the Scholarship for a Student with Distinction, The College of Natural Sciences, Ewha Womans University

1996, 1997 & 1998: Honor of the Scholarship for an Excellent Student, The College of Natural Sciences, Ewha Womans University

1999 Award for Graduation with the Highest Praise at the College of Natural Sciences, Ewha Womans University

1999 & 2000: Award for a Student Bringing Glory to Ewha Womans University

1996, 1997 & 1998: Gold Medal for an Excellent Student of the Association of Chemistry Graduates, Ewha Womans University