Educations

• 1995~2002   Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Physics (B.S. )
• 2002~2004   California Institute of Technology, Applied Physics (M.S. )
• 2004~2008   California Institute of Technology, Applied Physics (Ph.D. )

• 2011~Present   Assistant Professor / Associate Professor, KAIST

• 2009~2011       Postdoc, University of California Los Angeles, Bioengineering

• 2008~2009       Postdoc, California Institute of Technology

LAB
Microfluidics & Biosensor Laboratory
 

Research Interest
Development of novel microfluidic, MEMS devices for bio-applications and fundamental sciences including biomolecular dynamics and thermal energy flow in nano-bio systems. Important topics are as follows.
  1.  Nanofluidic liquid and cryo TEM for structural dynamics of biomolecules
  2.  Study of cellular metabolic energy using microfluidic calorimeters
  3.  Microparticle/cell manipulation and separation using inertial microfluidics
  4.  Flexible, functional microchannel fabrication and applications
  5.  Development of novel nano-, micro-fabrication techniques.