Advisor

Appointments

2023-Now:  Professor, Department of Marine Science, Incheon National University, Incheon, South Korea

2021-Now:  Head of the Yellow Sea Research Institute, Incheon, South Korea

2018-2022:  Associate Professor, Department of Marine Science, Incheon National University, Incheon, South Korea

2018-2021:  Deputy Dean of the Institute of Convergence Science & Technology, Incheon National University, Incheon, South Korea

2016-2021:  Head of the Institute of Green Environmental Research Center, Incheon, South Korea

2014-2017:  Assistant Professor, Department of Marine Science, Incheon National University, Incheon, South Korea

2013-2014:  Research Fellow (National Research Foundation of Korea), Research Institute for Natural Sciences, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea

2012-2013:  Post-doctoral Fellow, Research Institute for Natural Sciences, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea

Education

2006-2011:  Department of Molecular and Environmental Bioscience, Graduate school, Hanyang University, Unified course of the master’s and the doctor’s 

2001-2003:  Soldier, Republic of Korea Air Force

1999-2005:  Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Hanyang University (ERICA), B.Sc program

Thesis work

Ph.D. Thesis:  Genome Resource-based Molecular and Environmental Biological Research in Aquatic Organisms 

Research Interests

Aquatic Ecotoxicology; Marine Omics; Marine Molecular Biology and Biochemistry; Molecular and Biochemical Approach using Non-Model Aquatic Organisms (e.g., fish, copepod, rotifer, gastropod, polychaete, cyanobacteria); Marine Environmental Science; Genomics; Proteomics; Epigenetics; Environmental Systems Biology

Service as Editor or Editorial board (International)

2021-Now:  International Journal of Molecular Sciences (Editorial board)

2020-Now:  Toxics (Editorial board)

2016-Now:  Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety (Editorial board)

2015-Now:  Molecular& Cellular Toxicology (Associate Editor)

2014-Now:  Frontiers in Environmental Toxicology (Editorial board)

2014-Now:  Frontiers in Marine Pollution (Editorial board)

2014-Now:  Toxicology and Environmental Health Sciences (Editorial board)

2014-2016:  Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (Editorial board)

Service as Editor or Editorial board (Domestic)

2025-Now:  Journal of Marine Life Science (Editor-in-Chief)

2023-Now:  National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF; Review Roard)

2020-Now:  Development & Reproduction (Editorial board)

2015-Now:  Journal of Marine Life Science (Editorial board)

Society Activities (International)

2017-Now:  Member of the World Aquaculture Society (WAS)

2012-Now:  Member of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC)

Society Activities (Domestic)

2015-Now:  Member of the Korean Society of Marine Life Science

2013-Now:  Member of the Genetics Society of Korea

2012-Now:  Member of the Korean Society of Toxicogenomics and Toxicoproteomics

2012-Now:  Member of the Korean Society of Environmental Risk Assessment and Health Science

2012-Now:  Member of the Korean Society of Oceanography

2012-2013:  Member of the Korean Society of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Reviewer- Journal Publications

Aquaculture, Aquaculture Research, Aquatic Toxicology, BioChip Journal, BMC Genomics, Canadian Journal of Zoology, Chemistry and Ecology, Chemosphere, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Ecological Indicators, Ecotoxicology, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, Electronic Journal of Biotechnology, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Environmental Toxicology, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Fish Physiology and Biochemistry, Fish & Shellfish Immunology, Gene, Genes, General and Comparative Endocrinology, International Journal of Limnology, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Marine Biotechnology, Marine Environmental Research, Marine Pollution Bulletin, Molecular Biology Reports, Molecular and Cellular Toxicology, Molecular Ecology Resources, PLoS ONE, Science of the Total Environment, Scientific Reports, Toxins

Academic Awards

∙ The Hae Rang Excellent Academic Award of the Korean Society of Toxicogenomics and Toxicoproteomics (5 Sep 2024)

∙ The Hae Rang Excellent Academic Award of the Korean Society of Toxicogenomics and Toxicoproteomics (7 Nov 2023)

∙ The Hae Rang Excellent Academic Award of the Korean Society of Toxicogenomics and Toxicoproteomics (26 Oct 2022)

∙ 2021 Best Faculty Research Award of Incheon National University (29 Mar 2022)

∙ Excellent Academic Award of the Korean Society of Toxicogenomics and Toxicoproteomics (3 Nov 2021)

∙ 2020 Best Faculty Research Award of Incheon National University (28 Feb 2021)

∙ 2019 Best Faculty Research Award of Incheon National University (28 Feb 2020)

∙ Excellent Academic Best Award of the Korean Society of Environmental Risk Assessment and Health Science (20 Nov 2019)

∙ Academic Award of the Korean Society of Toxicogenomics and Toxicoproteomics (6 Nov 2019)

∙ Best Paper Award of the Korean Society of Toxicogenomics and Toxicoproteomics (1 Nov 2018)

∙ 2017 Best Teacher Award of Incheon National University (28 Feb 2018)

∙ Academic Award of the Korean Society of Toxicogenomics and Toxicoproteomics (2 Nov 2017)

∙ Best Paper Award of the Korean Society of Toxicogenomics and Toxicoproteomics (10 Nov 2016)

∙ 2016 Best Teacher Award of Incheon National University (25 Aug 2016)

∙ 2015 Best Faculty Research Award of Incheon National University (25 Feb 2016)

∙ 2014 Best Faculty Research Award of Incheon National University (26 Feb 2015)

∙ The Top Prize in recognition of an outstanding Ph.D. thesis of Hanyang University (awarded by the Dean of Hanyang

  University, 2012)

∙ Award for outstanding publication in the Research Institute for Natural Sciences of Hanyang University (2008)

∙ Traveling Grant of the NIBB International Practical Course (2008, Japan): 2nd Developmental Genetics of Zebrafish

  and Medaka II

∙ Award for outstanding publication in the Research Institute for Natural Sciences of Hanyang University (2007)

Fellowship

∙ Research Fellow (2013 - 2014) - nominated by National Research Foundation of Korea

∙ Seoul Science Scholarship (2007 - 2008) - Seoul Metropolitan Government of Korea

Research Grants (as PI)

∙ Research contract-2 (2023) - National Institute of Fisheries Science

∙ Research contract-1 (2023) - National Institute of Fisheries Science

∙ KIMST Research Grant (2022-2026) - Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries

∙ KEITI Research Grant (2022-2026) - Ministry of Environment

∙ Research contract (2022) - National Institute of Fisheries Science

∙ Mid-career Researcher Program (2022-2025) - National Research Foundation of Korea

∙ KIMST Research Grant (2021-2026) - Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries

∙ Research contract (2021) - National Institute of Fisheries Science

∙ MFDS Research Grant (2020-2021) - Ministry of Food and Drug Safety

∙ Research contract (2020) - Korea Polar Research Institute

∙ Mid-career Researcher Program (2019-2022) - National Research Foundation of Korea

∙ Research contract (2019) - Korea Polar Research Institute

∙ Research contract (2019) - National Institute of Fisheries Science

∙ Research contract (2018) - Korea Polar Research Institute

∙ Research contract (2018) - National Institute of Fisheries Science

∙ Research contract (2018) - National Institute of Fisheries Science

∙ Key Research Institute (2017-2026) - National Research Foundation of Korea

∙ Research contract (2017) - National Institute of Fisheries Science

∙ R&E Program (2017) - Gyeonggi Science High School for the Gifted

∙ Young Researcher Program (2016-2019) - National Research Foundation of Korea

∙ General Researcher Program, Part: Fundamental Research (2012-2015) - National Research Foundation of Korea