Education

• Postdoctoral Fellow: Bioinorganic Chemistry, California Institute of Technology(Caltech) (Professsor Jacqueline K. Barton), USA
• PhD: Inorganic (Bioinorganic) Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (Professsor Stephen J. Lippard), USA
• MSc: Bioinorganic Chemistry, Ewha Womans University (Professor Wonwoo Nam), Republic of Korea
• BSc: Chemistry, Ewha Womans University, Republic of Korea

Professional Experience

• L’Oréal Korea-UNESCO for Women in Science Award (Academic Award, Grand Prize)
• Hanseong Science Award (Hanseong SonJaeHan Scholarship Foundation)
• Fellow of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST)
• RIGAKU-ACCC Award, Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ACCC)
• The Year Award for Women in Science and Technology (WISET and Ministry of Science and ICT)
• S-OIL Next-Generation Scientist Award [S-OIL Science Prodigy & Culture Foundation & The Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST)
• Member of the Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology (Y-KAST)
• Early Career Award, Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SBIC)

Honors and Awards

• L’Oréal Korea-UNESCO for Women in Science Award (Academic Award, Grand Prize)
• Hanseong Science Award (Hanseong SonJaeHan Scholarship Foundation)
• Fellow of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST)
• RIGAKU-ACCC Award, Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ACCC)
• The Year Award for Women in Science and Technology (WISET and Ministry of Science and ICT)
• S-OIL Next-Generation Scientist Award [S-OIL Science Prodigy & Culture Foundation & The Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST)
• Member of the Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology (Y-KAST)
• Early Career Award, Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SBIC)

Research Interests

• Exploring how metal ions shape biomolecular interactions,chemical reactivity, and dynamic assemblies in life and disease, while developing chemical tools to understand and control complex pathological networks in neurodegenerative disorders

Publications (Max 5)

• Nature Chemistry 2022, 14, 1021. "Conformational and Functional Changes of the Native Neuropeptide Somatostatin Occur in the Presence of Copper and Amyloid-β“
• Nature Chemical Biology 2025, 21, 1709. "Interactions with Tau's Microtuble-Binding Repeats Modulate Amyloid-β Aggregation and Toxicity“
• Nature Communications 2016, 7, 13115. "Structure-Mechanism-Based Engineering of Chemical Regulators for Distinct Pathological Factors in Alzheimer's Disease"
• Journal of the Americal Chemical Society (JACS) 2026, 148, 461. "Positional Isomerism Tunes Molecular Reactivities and Mechanisms toward Pathological Targets in Dementia“
• Journal of the Americal Chemical Society (JACS) 2020, 142, 8183. “Minimalistic Principles for Designing Small Molecules with Multiple Reactivities against Pathological Factors in Dementia”