Research

Research

9/2024 – present Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Air Quality Lab

Graduate Assistant, (Advisor: Prof. Xiaomeng Jin)

4/2023 – 8/2024 University of Suwon Air Pollution Lab

Postgraduate Research Assistant (Advisor: Prof. Hyeong-Ahn Kwon)

• Simulating a nested grid simulation in GEOS-Chem during the KORUS-AQ campaign for top-down estimates of anthropogenic VOC emissions in Korea

• Assessing the effects of transition from mobile vehicles to electric vehicles on air quality in Korea with GEOS-Chem

6/2018 – 3/2023 POSTECH Environmental & Health Assessment Lab 

Research Assistant, (Advisor: Prof. Sae Yun Kwon)

5/2019 – 3/2023 Project: "Use of Mercury Isotopes in Foliage and Soil for Atmospheric Mercury Source Tracing"

 (Funded by the National Institute of Environmental Research)

3/2020 – 2/2021 Project: “A Mercury Isotope Study of Atmospheric Mercury Sources and Biogeochemical Cycling in Korean Forests”

 (Funded by the Korea Forest Service – Korea Forestry Promotion Institute)

• Developed a new approach to track atmospheric mercury sources via forest media (soil, foliage, litter, etc.) using mercury stable isotopes. 

• Assessed how mercury isotope ratios in fish can be used for mercury biomonitoring under the Minamata Convention

• Performed analyses on mercury stable isotopes in forest media 

• Participated in the synthesis of the global mercury isotope data inventory (iGOS4M)

1/2017 – 4/2018 KHU Particle & Air Pollution Control Lab 

6/2014 – 12/2014     Undergraduate Research Intern, (Advisor: Young Min Jo)

• Synthesis of aluminum trihydride using dual solvents

• Characterization of aluminum hydride polymorphs prepared by wet process