Ph.D. KAIST, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Korea, 2017.02 B.S. Sungkyunkwan University, Department of Chemical Engineering, Korea, 2012.02

Assistant Professor, Kyung Hee University, Korea, 2022.09~present Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, 2018.12~2022.07 Senior Researcher, Advanced Biomass R&D Center (Global Frontier Project by Ministry of Science and ICT), Korea, 2017.03~2018.11

- Photoautotrophic organic acid production: glycolic acid production by microalgal cultivation. Chemical Engineering Journal 433 (2022) 133636. - L-malic acid production from xylose by engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Biotechnology Journal 17 (2022) 2000431. - Comprehensive metabolic engineering strategies for the production of bioproducts in microalgae. Bioresource Technology 345 (2022) 126529. - Enhancement of lipid production in Nannochloropsis salina by overexpression of endogenous NADP-dependent malic enzyme, Algal Research 54 (2021) 102218. - The NanDeSyn Database for Nannochloropsis systems and synthetic biology, The Plant Journal 104 (2020) 1736-1745. - Increased biomass and lipid production by continuous cultivation of Nannochloropsis salina transformant overexpressing a bHLH transcription factor, Biotechnology and Bioengineering 116 (2019) 555-568. - Enhancement of biomass and lipid productivity by overexpression of a bZIP transcription factor in Nannochloropsis salina, Biotechnology and Bioengineering 115 (2018) 331-340. - Increased lipid production by heterologous expression of AtWRI1 transcription factor in Nannochloropsis salina, Biotechnology for Biofuels 10 (2017) 231. - CRISPR/Cas9-induced knockout and knock-in mutations in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Scientific Reports 6 (2016) 27810. - Effects of overexpression of a bHLH transcription factor on biomass and lipid production in Nannochloropsis salina, Biotechnology for Biofuels 8 (2015) 200.

- Bioconversion of CO2, CH4, and lignocellulosic biomass into bioproducts - Bioengineering of microalgae, yeast, and bacteria - Synthetic biology and metabolic engineering of microorganisms - Cultivation and fermentation engineering of microorganisms - Metabolic flux balance analysis - Techno-economic analysis