Professor

Professional Career

2018, 6 ~ Present

Director, Center for Cell-to-cell Communication in Cancers (C5) 

Key Research Institutes in University (중점연구소), UNIST, Ulsan, Korea

2014, 3 ~ Present

Associate & Full professor, School of Life Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences

Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, Korea

2013, 9 ~ 2020, 8

Director, BK21 plus - Biomolecular Network research team

UNIST, Ulsan, Korea

2017, 2 ~ 2018, 1

Visiting scholar, Dept. of Chemistry

Indiana University,  Bloomington, IN, USA

2010, 2 ~ 2014, 2

Assistant professor, School of Nano-Bioscience and Chemical Engineering

Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, Korea

2007, 9 ~ 2010, 1

Postdoctoral fellow

Research topics

- Understanding the Process of Biomimetic Nanomaterials Synthesis

- Protein Cage Engineering for Controlled Biomimitic Nanomaterials Synthesis

Advisors: Trevor Douglas, Ph.D. and Mark Young, Ph.D.

Center for Bio-Inspired Nanomaterials

Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Montana State University, MT, USA

2007, 1 ~ 2007, 8

Postdoctoral fellow

Research topic

- Structural Virology of HIV-1

Advisor: Peter E. Prevelige, Jr. Ph.D

UAB Biomedical FT-ICR Mass Spectrometry Laboratory

Dept. of Microbiology, School of Medicine

University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, USA

Education

2001 ~ 2006

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

UAB Biomedical FT-ICR Mass Spectrometry Laboratory

Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine

University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, USA

Thesis title: Studies of Bacteriophage P22 Capsid Dynamics using Mass Spectrometry

Mentor: Peter E. Prevelige, Jr. Ph.D

1998 ~ 2000

Master of Science (M.S)

Dept. of Microbiological Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea

Thesis title: Structural study on the membrane lipids in Thermoanaaerobater

ethanolicus and their function

Mentor: Seunho Jung, Ph.D.

1991 ~ 1998 (1992-1995: Korean Army Service)

Bachelor of Science

Dept. of Microbiological Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea

Academic Honors and Awards

2022 Outstanding Faculty Award (Research)

Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology

2007 Career Enhancement Award

The Office of Postdoctoral Education,

University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

2006 Student Travel Stipend for 18th Sanibel Conference on Mass Spectrometry

The American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS)

2005 McKibbin Pre-doctoral Award

Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics,

University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

2005 Outstanding International Student

School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA