E-mail: sgkim1 (at) kaist.ac.kr
Office: E6-3, 2206
Lab: E6-3, 2217Â
Associate ProfessorÂ
Department of Biological Sciences (2017-Present), KAIST
Graduate School of Engineering Biology (2024-Present), KAIST
Head of Ecology Research Center (2023~), KAIST
Section editor in Journal of Ecology and Environment (2019-Present)
Reviewing editor in eLife (2020-Present)
Plant Team Leader (-2017) Center for Genome Engineering (Director Jin-Soo Kim), Institute for Basic Science
Project Group Leader (-2014) Department of Molecular Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany (Advisor: Ian T. Baldwin)
BS (2004) & PhD (2009) Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University (Advisor: Prof. Chung-Mo Park)
Research Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, KAIST
Tissue-specific plant-herbivore interactions
Plant volatile biosynthesis
Floral scents
Plant-Insect Interaction
Plant synthetic biology
Plant specialized metabolite biosynthesis
Plant-Pollinator Interaction
Plant specialized metabolite biosynthesis
Genomics in non-model plants (Hibiscus sabdariffa, Flueggea suffruticosa, Rosa hybrida)
Deep learning-based bio-retrosynthesis
Biosynthetic pathways of natural products
Plant genome editing
Plant-herbivore interactions
Plant specialized metabolite biosynthesis
Metabolites in trichome
Genome editing
Plant-insect interactions
Plant synthetic biology
Plant specialized metabolite biosynthesis