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

• G-Lamp Chungbuk National University (2024-2029): Investigating natural hydrogen production mechanisms and potential sites in the Korean Peninsula.

• National Research Foundation of Korea NRF(2024-2029): The investigation of critical metals and rare earth elements enrichment mechanisms in deep-sea mineral resources using high-resolution integrated analysis. PI:Prof. Seungyeol Lee

• 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.