Jin-Wu Nam, PhD, National Research Foundation, South Korea
Jin-Wu Nam has been the Director of the Next-Generation Biotechnology Division at the National Research Foundation (NRF) since December 2023. Before this, he was Deputy Director at the HY Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (HY-IBB) from December 2021 to December 2023. He’s been a Professor at Hanyang University’s Department of Life Science since September 2012. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT/Whitehead Institute (2008–2012). Jin-Wu earned his MS and PhD in Bioinformatics at Seoul National University (2002–2007) and his BS in Biology from Yonsei University (1994–2001).
Junil Kim, PhD, Soongsil University, South Korea
Junil Kim has been an Assistant Professor in Bioinformatics at Soongsil University since 2021. Before that, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Copenhagen (2018–2021). He also held postdoctoral positions at the University of Pennsylvania (2016–2018) and CHA University (2014–2015). Junil Kim earned his Ph.D. in Systems Biology from KAIST (2014), his M.S. in Bioinformatics from Seoul National University (2008), and his B.S. in Bioinformatics from Soongsil University (2005).
Hyobin Jeong, PhD, Yonsei University, South Korea
Hyobin Jeong joined Yonsei University as an Assistant Professor in Systems Biology in March 2024. She was a Research Professor at the Hanyang Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (September 2022–February 2024). Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at EMBL (2017–2022), the Institute of Molecular Biology (2016–2017), and the Institute of Basic Science (2015). Hyobin obtained her Ph.D. in Systems Biology from I-Bio, POSTECH (2014), and her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from POSTECH (2010).
Joon-Yong An, PhD, Korea University, South Korea
Joon-Yong An has been an Associate Professor at Korea University’s Department of Biosystems and Biomedical Sciences since 2022, after serving as an Assistant Professor there since 2019. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco (2015–2019). Joon-Yong received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Queensland (2016), his M.S. in Molecular Biology (2011), and his B.S. in Molecular Biotechnology from Konkuk University (2010).
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