Professional experiences

• 2025.09 – Present: Assistant professor, Department of Food Science and Biotechnology, College of Life Science, Sejong University, Seoul, Korea

• 2025.03 – 2025.08: Senior Researcher/ Korea Research Institute of Bioscience & Biotechnology (KRIBB), Synthetic Biology Research Center and the K-Biofoundry, Daejeon, Korea

• 2022.11 – 2025.02: Researcher/ Korea Research Institute of Bioscience & Biotechnology (KRIBB), Synthetic Biology Research Center, Daejeon, Korea

• 2022.07 – 2022.10: Postdoctoral researcher/ University of Texas at Austin, Department of Molecular Biosciences (Advisor: Prof. Andrew Ellington), Austin, TX, USA

• 2019.07 – 2022.06: Postdoctoral researcher/ University of Illinois at Urbana~Champaign (UIUC), Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (Advisors: Prof. Yong~Su Jin and Prof. Ting Lu), Urbana, IL USA 

• 2019.03 – 2019.06: Postdoctoral researcher/ Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Research Institute of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Suwon, Korea

Education

• 2014 – 2019: Ph.D. of Science/Dept. of Biotechnology and Bioengineering (Supervisor: Prof. Dae-Hyuk Kweon), Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon, Korea

• 2012 – 2014: Master of Science/Dept. of Biotechnology and Bioengineering (Supervisor: Prof. Dae-Hyuk Kweon), Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon, Korea

• 2009 – 2012: Bachelor of Science/Dept. of Genetic Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon, Korea