Korea VirusResearch Institute

 Education

• Ph.D., Natural Sciences (Dr. rer. nat.), the research group “Planetary Atmospheres” of the MaxPlanck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) and the Institute for Geophysics andExtraterrestrial Physics (IGEP) of the TU Braunschweig, Germany, April 2012

• M.Sc., Atmospheric Science, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, August 2008

• B.S., Atmospheric Sciences, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, August 2006

 Work Experiences

• 2022-present : Chief of Investigator, Institute for Basic Science(IBS), Daejeon, South Korea

• 2021-present : Co-I of VenSpec-U of the EnVision project(ESA)

• 2019-2022 : Guest Investigator of the BepiColombo project (ESA-JAXA)

• 2016-present : Co-I of UVI on board Akatsuki(JAXA)

• 2015-present : Member of the science observation planning team of Akatsuki(JAXA)

• 2021 : Researcher at DLR Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin, Germany

• 2020 : Venus Faraway observation campaign (3 spacecraft, 6 ground-based telescopes)

• 2019-2021 : EU researcher at Technical Univ. of Berlin, Germany

• 2019-2021 : Visiting scientist at DLR, Berlin, Germany

• 2017-2020 : Co-I of 5 Venus observation programs at IRTF/NASA, Subaru/NAOJ, and SOFIA (all are executed, or confirmed)

• 2018 : PI of Venus observations at UVES/VLT/ESO, Chile (total 5 hrs during 3 nights)

• 2017 : PI of Venus observations at IRTF/NASA, Hawaii, USA (total 60 hours for 15 days in 2016B and 2017A)

• 2017-2018 : Project Researcher at Univ. of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan

• 2016-2018 : Organizer of coordinated Venus observations of ground-based observations with Akatsuki/JAXA

• 2012-2017 : Invited Research Associate at ISAS/JAXA in the Akatsuki team, Japan

• 2009-2012 : Ph.D. and a postdoc position in the ‘Planetary Atmospheres’ research group, MPS, Germany

Research Highlight

• 2021 : 2020 Top 50 Physics articles of the Nature Communications papers https://www.nature.com/collections/bjeiefehgc

• 2020 : Featured Image of Nature Communications

https://t.co/OuaBrWfI98

• 2019 : NOVA Highlight Selection https://aasnova.org/2019/12/23/selections-from-2019-tracking-variations-in-venuss-clouds/