Education

1987 – 1993 B.Sc., Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

1993 – 2000 Ph.D., Rutgers University – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Career

2001 – 2002 Postdoctoral Fellow, Rutgers University – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

2002 – 2009 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School

2010 – 2017 Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, UT Southwestern Medical Center

2017 – 2018 Associate Professor with Tenure, Department of Neurosciences, UT Southwestern Medical Center

2018 – 2022 Associate Professor with Tenure, Department of Life Sciences, POSTECH

2023 – Professor, Department of Life Sciences, POSTECH

2023 – Director, POSTECH Brain Research Center

2023 – Director, Biological Research Information Center (BRIC)

Awards/Honors

2002 Lefler postdoctoral fellowship, Harvard Medical School

2003 Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research

2010 Reagent Scholar, UT Southwestern Medical Center

2012 The Welch Foundation

2012 The Klingenstein Fellowship Award

2012 Association of Korean Neuroscientists (AKN) junior faculty award

2014 BRAIN EAGER Award (co-PI), National Science Foundation

2018 SFARI Pilot Award (co-PI), Simons Foundation