Yonsei University
Mineral physics, Planetary science
yongjaelee@yonsei.ac.kr
http://hpmpc.org

Yongjae Lee is a professor at the Department of Earth System Sciences, Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. With Ph.D. in geosciences from Stony Brook University in 2001, he discovered a “super-hydrated zeolite” forming under pressure while working as a postdoctoral fellow at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Through joining Yonsei University as a faculty in 2006, he continued to explore high-pressure behaviors of porous materials to establish “super-hydration” as a controllable property in crystalline host-guest systems. Over the past several years, he has extended “super-hydration” into a global and planetary settings and reported super-hydration and/or hydration-breakdowns of subducting clays and minerals, which sheds new insights into understanding geochemistry and seismicity in the region as well as deep water transport into the Earth. Recently, he is exploring water-mediated reactions in the early magma ocean and contemporary core-mantle boundary conditions by utilizing advanced synchrotron and X-ray free electron laser facilities in Korea, Germany, and USA. Yongjae Lee is the author of ~200 peer-reviewed research papers with h-index of ~41.

Korea Polar Research Institute
Mineralogy
changkun@kopri.re.kr
https://koreamet.kopri.re.kr

Dr. Changkun Park is a principal research scientist at the Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI) and a professor at the UST KOPRI School. He is the curator of the Antarctic meteorite collections at KOPRI and is the director of the electron microprobe and stable isotope laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in cosmochemistry from Hokkaido University, Japan, and worked on extraterrestrial materials research at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetology at the University of Hawaii, USA. He has studied several isotope systems, including oxygen, aluminum-magnesium, calcium, and titanium, to understand the origin and early evolution of the solar system. His recent interests include water-rock interactions on asteroids and shock-induced mineral transformations on the Moon.

Seoul National University
Ore deposits
seo28@snu.ac.kr
https://sites.google.com/view/junghunseo/home

Jung Hun Seo is a professor of Economic Geology in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Seoul National University. His research focuses on mineral deposits within the Earth's crust and planetary bodies, with a particular emphasis on critical mineral resources formed by igneous intrusions and hydrothermal activities in the upper crust. Prof. Seo investigates geological features such as structures and hydrothermal alterations within the field of ore deposits and prospects. In the laboratory, Prof. Seo conducts studies on micro-petrography, (isotope) geochemistry, geochronology, and paleofluids trapped within minerals. These analyses are undertaken to reconstruct the ore-forming processes of economic mineral resources.

Korea University
Petrology
haskim2@korea.ac.kr

Hyeong Soo Kim is a professor of petrology in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Korea University, South Korea. He received a PhD in geology at James Cook University, Australia. His specialty is the field of interrelationship between deformation and metamorphism combined with P-T-X modeling of metamorphic mineral assemblages. His current research focuses on rock-fluid interaction including serpentinization and scapolitization during metamorphism and metasomatism.

Korea Basic Science Institute
Geochronology, Petrology, Geochemistry
kyi@kbsi.re.kr
https://psd-gskorea.notion.site/SHRIMP-lab-in-KBSI-93cbbdcbcc3b40b58a8f7d4b05a0af63

Dr. Keewook Yi is a director and research scientist at the Research Center of Earth and Environmental Sciences of the Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI). He also manages the High Resolution Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, a core facility that has been involved in the most international collaborations among KBSI instruments. He has completed 103 scientific sessions using his lab with foreign scientists in the past 16 years. Since 2020, he has served as the Korea program coordinator for the Europlanet Research Infrastructure 2024 from Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. His current research interests include the geochronology of terrestrial and planetary minerals. He obtained his PhD in Earth Sciences from Seoul National University. Before joining KBSI, he worked as a research staff member at the Digital Electron Microscopy Facility at Indiana University at Indianapolis.

Kangwon National University
Geophysics
sjchang@kangwon.ac.kr
http://seismo.kangwon.ac.kr

Research Area: Seismology
My main research interests have focused on the construction of 3D velocity and radial anisotropic models for crust and mantle. By dramatically improving the resolution with complementary multiple data sets, I could shed new light on tectonic evolution especially on the Arabian Peninsula and subduction zones around the Pacific Ocean. Now my study extends to global scale to obtain radially anisotropic structure, which will ensue new revelation on mantle convection and Earth's evolution.

Education: Ph.D. Seoul National University (2004)

Research Experience: Associate Professor, 2019-Present Kangwon National University, South Korea
Assistant Professor, 2013-2019 Kangwon National University, South Korea
Honorary Research Associate, 2014-Present University College London, UK
Senior Research Associate, 2011-2013 University of East Anglia, UK
Postdoctoral Researcher, 2006-2011 Northwestern University, USA
Postdoctoral Researcher, 2004-2006 Seoul National University, South Korea

Awards: Distinguished Research Award, 2019, by Korean Society of Earth and Exploration Geophysicists.
100 Excellent National R&D Award, 2017, by Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea
Distinguished Teaching Award, 2017, by Kangwon National University
Young Scientist Award, 2015, by Korean Society of Earth and Exploration Geophysicists.

Kyungpook National University
Structural Geology
psi@knu.ac.kr

Seung-Ik Park is a structural geologist whose research interests include orogenic processes, basin inversion, transpression, fault and fracture networks, and structural controls on fluid migration. He has worked as a researcher at the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (2010–2017) and NEXGEO Inc. (2006– 2009), where he focused on the regional geology and tectonics of Korea and their implications for engineering geological applications. Currently, He is an associate professor in the Department of Geology at Kyungpook National University (KNU), Republic of Korea. Seung-Ik received his B.S. and M.S. from Seoul National University in 2003 and 2005 and his Ph.D. from Yonsei University in 2017.

Yonsei University
Sedimentology
delta@yonsei.ac.kr

Wonsuck Kim is an associate professor at the Department of Earth System Sciences, Yonsei University, South Korea. His research aims to deepen our comprehension of stratigraphic responses to sediment transport processes and imposed boundary conditions in depositional basins. By leveraging insights from physical experiments and mathematical models, he enhances the interpretation of paleoenvironments documented in stratigraphic data.

Korea University
Environmental Geochemistry
manjaekwon@korea.ac.kr
https://sites.google.com/site/geobiokwon

I am currently a professor of geomicrobiology and environmental microbiology at Korea University. I was a principal research scientist at Korea Institute of Science and Technology in 2011–2017. I was also a director’s postdoctoral fellow at Argonne National Laboratory and got my PhD from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA. My research expertise is microbial biogeochemistry in pristine and contaminated subsurface environments.
I am broadly interested in geochemical and microbial processes controlling the transformation and mobility of metals, radionuclides and organic contaminants both in engineered and natural environments. In particular, I have investigated the relationships among microorganisms, carbon, iron and sulfur biogeochemical cycling, which have critical implications for the remediation of metal, radionuclide and/or organic compound contaminated environments and for the development of microbial extraction technologies of critical metals from geological material including rock, soil, sediment, and water.

Yonsei University
Hydrogeology
hanw@yonsei.ac.kr
http://fluids.yonsei.ac.kr

연세대학교 한원식 교수는 수리지질학, 이산화탄소지중저장, 방사성폐기물처분장, 지하수오염정화, 마이크로CT활용 암석특성 관측과 관련된 주제를 수치모델링 기법을 활용하여 연구를 하고 있음. 관련주제의 연구를 통해 국내외 SCI 저널((Water Resources Research, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Hydrology, Advances in Water Resources, Journal of Geophysical Research, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Gondwana Research 등)에 90여편 이상의 논문을 출판함.

Korea Maritime & Ocean University
Marine geology
shinn21@kmou.ac.kr

Young Jae Shinn is an Associate Professor at National Korea Maritime and Ocean University, Korea. He has studied marine geology and seismic stratigraphy of Korean continental shelf basins, and is extending his interest to site selection and characterization of CO2 storage site.

Chungnam National University
Applied Geology
jaeyu@cnu.ac.kr
https://geo.cnu.ac.kr/research/remote-sensing/

Prof. Jaehyung Yu is a professor at the Department of Geological Sciences at Chungnam National University. His specialty includes Geoinformatics on geological applications. He received a Ph.D. degree from Texas A&M University in 2005, specializing in remote sensing and spatial modeling. He had served as an assistant and associate professor at Texas A&M Univeristy-Kingsville from 2005 to 2012. His specialty includes Spatial analysis, Satellite/UAV/Close-range remote sensing, optical/multispectral/lidar/hyperspectral remote sensing for earth and environmental applications, and 3D modeling.

KIGAM
Petroleum Geology
hyun0922@kigam.re.kr

AREA OF INTEREST
Sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy in energy and environmental systems, Reservoir and Petroleum system modeling, evaluation of unconventional resources

SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Hyun Suk Lee is a research geologist at the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources. He received his M.Sc. and his Ph.D. from Seoul National University, Korea. He has studied sedimentology of the Korean sedimentary basins and Cambrian carbonate in the north China platform, and extends his interests to oil sands and shale gas reservoir modeling. He has leaded several national R&D programs related with the oilsands and shale gas fields in northern America as well as the petroleum system simulation in the Ulleung and Jeju basins.
He was an adjunct professor at Yonsei University and a lecturer at Chungbuk National University and Ewha Women University. He is a professor of Resource Engineering Department, University of Science and Technology since 2018. He was head of the Oil & Gas Research Center, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources and was a visiting geologist in Geological Survey of Canada, Natural Resource Canada. He is also active member of GEBCO Sub-Committee on Undersea Feature Names, representing IOC. He has awarded Korean Minister’s commendation two times and Academic Award of Korean Sedimentary and Petroleum Geology. He published more than 35 peer review research articles, made numerous presentations at international conferences, and also enrolled 15 patents in the field of petroleum geology and petroleum engineering.

Chungnam National University
Environmental Engineering
hanyoungsoo@cnu.ac.kr

Professor Han Young-soo is currently serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Engineering at Chungnam National University. She was awarded her Ph.D. for her research on the use of ferrous sulfide for the control of arsenic-contaminated groundwater at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Her research focuses on the reaction mechanisms and control between soil and aquifer constituents and trace toxic elements in soil and groundwater environments. For the analysis of reaction mechanisms, she utilizes synchrotron radiation X-ray absorption spectroscopy, and she has a keen interest in the characterization of materials using various X-ray spectroscopy methods such as XPS, XRD, and XRF. Moreover, the laboratory operated by Professor Han is equipped with various analytical instruments like ICP-OES and GC, performing various wet chemical analyses to conduct geochemical studies that simulate environmental conditions. The lab primarily conducts research simulating oxygen-poor soil environment conditions and performs experiments in an oxygen-controlled environment using an anaerobic glove box.

Kangwon National University
Resources Economics & Policy/AI
jangwonsuh@kangwon.ac.kr
https://sites.google.com/view/jangwonsuh

Jangwon Suh obtained his PhD in Energy Systems Engineering in 2013 from Seoul National University (SNU) in South Korea. He was teaching assistant in artificial intelligence (AI) based geohazard assessment at graduate school of engineering in SNU (2014) and was visiting scholar researcher at the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University in United State of America (2015–2016). In 2018, he became assistant professor in the Division of Energy Engineering and now he is associate professor in the Department of Energy Resources and Chemical engineering at Kangwon National University (KNU) in South Korea. He leads the Energy Geospatial Data Analysis laboratory and serves Section Editor in Resources Economics & Policy / AI, Economic and Environmental Geology.

Research interest: Geo-AI, geographic information systems, geostatistics, mine reclamation

Kongju National University
Conservation Geology for Cultural Heritage
joyh@kongju.ac.kr

전공 : 석조문화유산 보존과학 / 디지털 보존과학(Conservation Science for Stone Heritage)

- 2015.03.~현재 : 국립공주대학교 문화재보존과학과 조교수/부교수
- 2016.01.~2023.12. : (사)한국문화재보존과학회 편집위원/재무이사/학술이사
- 2019.02.~현재 : 국립공주대학교 공주학연구원 교육사업부장
- 2019.04.~현재 : (사)대한자원환경지질학회 전문위원/편집위원
- 2019.09.~현재 : ICOMOS-ISCS(석조물과학위원회) 전문위원
- 2021.04.~2023.03. : 경상남도청 문화재위원회 전문위원
- 2021.07.~현재 : 디지털유산페스타 총괄감독
- 2021.10.~현재 : 충청남도청 문화재위원회 전문위원
- 2023.05.~현재 : 문화재청 문화재위원회 전문위원
- 2023.11.~현재 : ICOMOS-KOREA 정회원
- 2024.01.~현재 : (사)한국문화재보존과학회 편집위원장

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