Professional Appointment

• Associate Professor, 2026-present : Chonnam National University (CNU), Gwangju, South Korea

• Assistant Professor, 2025-2026 : University of Science and Technology (UST), Daejeon, South Korea

• Distinguished Senior Research Scientist (우수과학자), 2023-2026 : Korea Institution of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST), Busan, South Korea

• Postdoctoral Research Associate, 2022-2023: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, CA, USA

• Postdoctoral Research Associate, 2019-2022: Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (AOS) program, Princeton University, NJ, USA 

• Visiting Scientist, 2019-2022: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NJ, USA

Education

• Ph.D., 2019: Division of Environmental Science and Technology, POSTECH, South Korea

• M. S., 2013: Environmental Marine Science, Hanyang University, South Korea

• B. S., 2011: Environmental Marine Science, Hanyang University, South Korea

Award

• Award for Zhu-Peterson Early Career Scientist from PICES (2025): In recognition of innovative research at the frontier of science relevant to the PICES mission, link

• K-ECOP팀 공로상 (우수 지도 부문), 제3회 해양수산 과학기술 빅데이터 경진대회 (2023), 한국해양학회 / 해양수산과학기술진흥원 

• Award for excellent senior research scientist funding from KIOST 2023-2025 

• Award for best oral presentation of PICES annual meeting 2022 "Attribution and predictability of climate-driven variability in global ocean color"

• Award for best poster presentation of PICES annual meeting 2022 "Oceanic and Atmospheric Drivers of Post-El-Nino Chlorophyll Rebound in the Equatorial Pacific"

• Award for Best PhD Dissertation from the Korean Society of Oceanography (2020)

• Award for Globally Outstanding Student from Hyundai Motor Chung Mong-Koo Foundation (2018) Interview link (Korean) 

• Award for Globally Outstanding Student from Hyundai Motor Chung Mong-Koo Foundation (2017) Interview link (Korean) 

Class

• Meteorological Dynamics (undergraduate course)

• Understanding marine science (undergraduate course)