Curriculum Vitae

Professional experiences

2023-Present Assistant professor, Dept. of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Chungbuk National University

2022-2023       Associate research scientist, Planetary science institute, AZ, USA.

2019-2022       Postdoctoral Fellow, NASA Johnson Space Center & Lunar and Planetary Institute, TX, USA 

2018-2019       Project assistant, Powder X-ray diffraction laboratory, University of Wisconsin- Madison

2013-2018  Research assistant NASA astrobiology institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison

2011-2013   Research assistant, Environmental geochemistry Lab, Pusan National University

2009-2011       Research assistant, Economic geology Lab, Pusan National University   

RESEARCH PROJECTS

• CBNU 2023: The crystal structures and phase transformation of hisingerite: Implications for amorphous phases on the surface of Mars. PI: Prof. Seungyeol Lee

• NRF & CBNU 2023:The mineralogy, chemistry, and millennial-scale paleoclimatic changes recorded in hydrogenetic ferromanganese crusts from Magellan seamount. PI:Prof. Seungyeol Lee

• Ryugu AO (JAXA): Mineralogy, Spectroscopy, and Isotopic Investigations of Ryugu samples (PI: Cyrena Anne Goodrich, Co-PI: Victoria Hamilton [Southwest Research Institute, Boulder], Co-PI: Prajkta Mane [LPI-USRA], Co-PI: Seungyeol Lee [LPI-USRA], Collaborator: Maximillian Hamm [Freie Universitaet] (accepted)

• NSF (EAR-1530614): Investigation on Modulated Structures and Subsolidus Phase Relations of Intermediate Plagioclase Feldspars Using Integrated Experiment and Simulation Methods (PI: Huifang Xu, UW Co-PI: Dane  Morgan), 7/2015 – 6/2017.

• NASA Astrobiology Institute (NNA13AA94A) Habitability, life detection, and the signatures of life on the terrestrial planets (PI: Clark Johnson, UW Co-I’s: Brian Beard, John Valley, Huifang Xu, Eric Roden, Brooke Norsted; Other Co-I’s: Pascale Ehrenfreund [George Wash. Univ], Chris Romanek [Univ. KY], Eric Boyd [MSU], Aaron Cavosei [Univ. Puerto Rico], Max Coleman [JPL], Kay Ferrari [JPL], Bill Schopf [UCLA]), 1/2013-12/2018.

Honors, awards and accomplishments

05/2022     2022 Best Paper Awards (Minerals Journal)

05/2021     Outstanding student Research Paper Award (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)

05/2020     2019-20 C.F Schiesser Student Research Paper Award (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)

04/2019     2018-19 C.F Schiesser Student Research Paper Award (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)

05/2018     Outstanding student Research Paper Award (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)

08/2017     Student scholar award (Microscopy Society of America and the Microanalysis Society)                              

06/2017     Student research grants (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)                               

06/2017     Student travel grant (The 54th annual Clay minerals society conference)    

05/2017     IUCr Pauling Poster Prize (2017 American crystallographic association)

05/2017     Outstanding student Research Paper Award (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)                               

05/2017     James D. and Stella M Robertson fellowship (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)               

04/2017     Student travel grant (Astrobiology Science conference, AbSciCon)

06/2016     Student research grant (The clay minerals society)              

06/2016     Student travel grant (The 53th annual Clay minerals society conference)

06/2013     Outstanding student Research Paper Award at the natural science field (Pusan National University)

Invited presentations

2023       The mineralogy, crystal chemistry, and millennial-scale paleoclimatic records of hydrogenetic ferromanganese                 crust from Magellan Seamounts, Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST), Busan

2022       Space weathering processes for Hayabusa-2 and OSIRIS-REx sample return missions, Planetary science   

               institute, AZ, USA.

2021        Thermal metamorphism of the Murchison CM2 carbonaceous chondrite to simulate space weathering of      

                primitive asteroids, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston

2020        Discovery of New Minerals of Luogufengite and Valleyite Using Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction and 

                Transmission Electron Microscope, M&M 2020 Meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

2020   The Journey of nanogeoscience: From atoms to Planetary system. Pusan National University