Education 

• 2022 Ph.D., Chemistry, KAIST
  Advisor: Professor Mi Hee Lim

• 2018 M.S., Chemistry, UNIST
  Advisor: Professor Mi Hee Lim

• 2016 B.S., Major: Chemistry, Minor: Biological Science, UNIST
  Graduated Summa Cum Laude 

Honors & Awards, & Scholarships

• 2025 2024 Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Seoul

• 2025 ~ 2026 POSCO Science Fellowship, POSCO TJ Foundation [Link]

• 2024 ~ 2029 Outstanding Young Scientist Grant, National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)

• 2023 ~ 2024 Basic Research Grant, National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)

• 2023 Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2023 Outstanding Reviewers: #RSCpeerreview

• 2022 The Best Ph.D. Thesis Award [Link] [Link], the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST) & S-Oil

• 2022 Future Talent Award [Link] [Link], the Korea Foundation for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology

• 2022 The Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, the Korean Chemical Society (KCS) [Link]

• 2020 Excellent Oral Presentation Award, the IBS-KAIST CCHF Virtual Workshop

• 2019 Poster Award [Link], the International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry, Switzerland

• 2019 ~ 2022 Global Ph.D. Fellowship (GPF), the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) 

• 2019 The Best Oral Presentation Award, the KAIST School of Molecular Science BK21 Workshop

• 2017 Ulsan City Mayor's Award / Summa Cum Laude [Link] [Link]

Representative Publications

• J. Han, J. Yoon, J. Shin, E. Nam, T. Qian, Y. Li, K. Park,* S.-H. Lee,* M. H. Lim* Nat. Chem. 2022, 14, 1021–1030.
  “Conformational and Functional Changes of the Native Neuropeptide Somatostatin Occur in the Presence of Copper and Amyloid-β”

• J. Han, Z. Du, M. H. Lim* Acc. Chem. Res. 2021, 54, 3930–3940.
  “Mechanistic Insight into the Design of Chemical Tools to Control Multiple Pathogenic Features in Alzheimer’s Disease”

• J. Han, H. J. Lee, K. Y. Kim, G. Nam, J. Chae, M. H. Lim* Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 2020, 117, 5160–5167.
  “Mechanistic Approaches for Chemically Modifying the Coordination Sphere of Copper–Amyloid-β Complexes”

• Y. Yi,† J. Han,† M. H. Park, N. Park, E. Nam, H. K. Jin,* J. Bae,* M. H. Lim* Chem. Commun. 2019, 55, 5847–5850. (†Co-first authorship)
  “Tunable Regulatory Activities of 1,10-Phenanthroline Derivatives towards Acid Sphingomyelinase and Zn(II)–Amyloid-β”

• J. Han, H. J. Lee, K. Y. Kim, S. J. C. Lee, J.-M. Suh, J. Cho, J. Chae,* M. H. Lim* ACS Chem. Neurosci. 2018, 9, 800–808.
  “Tuning Structures and Properties for Developing Novel Chemical Tools towards Distinct Pathogenic Elements in Alzheimer’s Disease”

• E. Nam,† J. Han,† J.-M. Suh, Y. Yi, M. H. Lim* Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol. 2018, 43, 8–14. (†Co-first authorship)
  “Link of Impaired Metal Ion Homeostasis to Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Neurons”