Introduction

Yoosik Youm (廉裕植)

[Current positions]

Underwood Distinguished Professor of Yonsei University
Professor of Sociology at Yonsei University

2024 - Underwood Distinguished Professor of Yonsei University

2021 - Director. Yonsei Signature Research Cluster of Sociology.

2013 - Director. Center for Interdisciplinary Approaches to Aging at Institute of Convergence Science. Yonsei University.

2021 - Director. A Korean Study of Adolescent Health (KSAH)

2022 - Director. Korean Social life, Health, and Aging Project (KSHAP)

2023 - Scientific Advisory Board Member for Irsay Institute, Indiana University

[Previous positions]

2022 - 2023 Editorial Board Member for Pervasive and Mobile Computing

2022 - 2023 Editorial Board Member for Plos One

2018 - 2022 Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports

2021 - 2022 Visiting Scholar. Psychology Department at UCLA

2018 - 2021 Underwood Distinguished Professor. Yonsei University

2011 - 2021 Director. Korean Social Life, Health, and Aging Project. (KSHAP)

2013 - 2021 Director. Brain Korea 21 Plus Project at Sociology department at Yonsei University

2010            Visiting Scholar. Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry. Tokyo, Japan

2010, 2014  Visiting Scholar. Center on Aging at National Opinion Research Center. The University of Chicago

2005 - 2014 Affiliated Professor of Sociology. The University of Illinois at Chicago

2005 - 2014 Advanced Researcher. Institute for Health Research and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago

2000 - 2005 Assistant Professor of Sociology. The University of Illinois at Chicago

2002            Visiting Scholar. Sociology department. Utrecht University, Netherlands

[Education]

1984 - 1987 B.A. Business administration. Yonsei University, South Korea

1988 - 1990 M.A. Business administration. Yonsei University, South Korea

1993 - 2000 Ph.D. Sociology. The University of Chicago, USA

[Awards]

1993 - 1996 Trustee Fellowship. The University of Chicago

2007  Excellence Award for Teaching. Yonsei University

2012  Excellence Award in Basic Research in Humanities and Social Sciences. Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology of Republic of Korea

2018  Excellence Award for Research Papers. Yonsei University

2018  50 Best Research Award. Ministry of Education of Republic of Korea

2018 - 2021 Underwood Distinguished Professorship. Yonsei University 

2021 Gallup Excellent Paper Award for the paper, "Similarity in functional brain connectivity at rest predicts interpersonal closeness in the social network of an entire village." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Gallup Korea and the Korean Association for Survey Research.