o Ph.D., Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (2006)
o M.Sc., Molecular Life Science, Ewha Womans University (2001)
o B.S., Chemistry, Ewha Womans University (1999)

o Director, Center for MetalloNeuroProteinoChemistry (June 2022 – Present)
o KAIST Endowed Chair Professor, Department of Chemistry, KAIST (March 2022 – Present)
o Professor, Department of Chemistry, KAIST (March 2020 – Present)
o Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry (tenured), KAIST (February 2018 – February 2020)
o Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry (tenured), Ulsan Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) (September 2013 – January 2018)
o Assistant Professor (Department of Chemistry) & Research Assistant Professor (Life Sciences Institute), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (August 2008 – August 2013)
o Postdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology (October 2006 – June 2008; Advisor: Professor Jacqueline K. Barton)

Bioinorganic chemistry / chemical neuroscience / chemical biology
Metalloneurochemistry / metals in biology & medicine
Networks of molecular interactions in human diseases
Chemical tools, diagnostics & therapeutics for human diseases

o 2024, Fellow of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST)
o 2023, RIGAKU-ACCC Award (Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry, ACCC)
o 2022, KAIST Endowed Chair Professorship
o 2021, The Year Award for Women in Science and Technology(Ministry of Science and ICT & WISET)
o 2021, S-Oil Next-Generation Scientist Award [S-Oil Science Prodigy & Culture Foundation & The Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST)]
o 2020, Asian Biological Inorganic Chemistry (AsBIC) James Hoeschele Award
o 2019, Member of the Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology (Y-KAST)
o 2018, Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SBIC) Early Career Award
o 2018, Yong Inorganic Chemist Award, KCS Inorganic Division
o 2016, Award for “30 Young Scientists of Korea” to Lead Basic Science Research for the Next 30 Years (POSTECH & DONG-A ILBO)
o 2016, Chemical Society of Japan Distinguished Lectureship Award
o 2015, KCS-Wiley Young Chemist Award
2013, National Science Foundation Career Award
o 2012, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
o 2012, The Paul Saltman Award (GRC Metals in Biology)
o 2010, The Gray Family Fund Young investigator (GRC, Metals in Medicine)