Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor)
Sydney Horizon Fellow
NHMRC Emerging Leader 1 Fellow

Education

2020 Ph.D. Department of Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea (Advisor: Prof. Seung-Woo Cho)
2013 B. S. Department of Biology, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

Awards and Prizes

2022 Light Microscopy Australia/Volume Imaging Australia Image Competition on Live Cell Category. 1st Prize
2021 Recipient of the Global Talent Independent (GTI) Program from the Australian Government
2021 Award from BRIC Hanbitsa ‘People who brought honor to Korea’
2019 Best organoid data award. 2nd Place. The 2nd Annual meeting of Korean organoid society
2019 Best Research Award. BK21 PLUS Initiative for Biological Function & Systems Symposium
2018 Best Poster award. The 1st International Annual Meeting of Korean Organoid Society
2018 Best Research Award. BK21 PLUS Initiative for Biological Function & Systems Symposium
2017 Best Poster award. Annual meeting of Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry
2017 Best Poster presentation award. Annual meeting of Korean Society for Stem Cell Research
2016 Best Research Award. BK21 PLUS Initiative for Biological Function & Systems Symposium

Research Interest: Human Brain Organoid on Chip to Investigate Long-distance Neural Circuit and Schizophrenia Modelling

Research Interest: Human Brain Micro-physiological Platform for Virus Infection Modelling and Treatment Screening​

Research Interest: Human Hippocampus-Ventral Forebrain-Midbrain on Chip to Investigate Long-distance Neural Circuit and Schizophrenia Modelling

Research Interest: Research Interest: Human Brain Micro-physiological Platform for Virus Infection Modelling and Treatment Screening​

Research Interest: Investigation of Plasma Treated Surface Biofunctionalization for Enhanced Human Neuronal Cell Culture and Maturation

Research Interest: Effect of Piezo on Oligodendrocyte Progenitor Cell Expression by Modelling Brain Aging

Research Interest: Developing 3D Synthetic Matrix to Investigate Extracellular Matrix - Cell Interactions and Neuroinflammation Modelling in a Brain Organoid Platform

Research Interest: Neuroinflammatory system-on-chip

Research Interest: In Vitro Retinal Organoid for Drug Repurposing

Research Interest: In vitro Retinal/Optical Model for Disease Modelling and Mechanism/Therapeutics Study

Research Interest