Principal Investigator
박정환, Ph.D.
Alan Jung Park
Young member, Korean Academy of Science and Technology (Y-KAST)
SUHF (서경배과학재단) Fellow
POSCO Science Fellow
Young Investigator, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, USA
Kwanjeong (관정교육재단) Fellow
Assistant Professor
Department of Physiology
Seoul National University College of Medicine
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Address
Research building, Room 704
103 Daehak-ro, Jongro-gu
Seoul 03080, South Korea
서울시 종로구 대학로 103 연구관 704호
Office: +82-2-740-8566
Fax: +82-2-763-9667
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
09/2022 - present
Assistant Professor
Seoul National University College of Medicine
07/2018 - 07/2022
Associate Research Scientist
Columbia University
Mentor: Joshua Gordon, MD/Ph.D (National Institute of Mental Health) & Joseph Gogos, MD/Ph.D (Columbia University)
02/2015 - 06/2018
Postdoctoral Fellow
Columbia University
Mentor: Joshua Gordon, MD/Ph.D (National Institute of Mental Health) & Joseph Gogos, MD/Ph.D (Columbia University)
05/2014 - 12/2014
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Pennsylvania
Mentor: Ted Abel, Ph.D.
EDUCATION
09/2007 - 04/2014
Ph.D. in neurobiology
University of Pennsylvania
Advisor: Ted Abel, Ph.D.
03/2001 - 02/2007
B.S. in Biotechnology, summa cum laude
Yonsei University
Advisor: Kang-Yell Choi, Ph.D.
(Military Service in the Republic of Korea Army, 2004-2006)
HONORS & AWARDS
2023
SUHF (서경배과학재단) Fellow
POSCO Science Fellow
Young member, Korean Academy of Science and Technology (Y-KAST)
2022
Outstanding Research Award, New England Bioscience Society
2021
Outstanding Research Award, Association of Korean Neuroscientists
Trainee Professional Development Award, Society for Neuroscience, U.S.A.
Best Presenter Award, Korean-American Scientists & Engineers Association Northeast Regional Conference
Andrew Kim Memorial Foundation Award
2020
NARSAD Young Investigator Award ($70,000), Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
2019
Scholar, Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society
Travel Award, eLife
2014
Best Poster Award, Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society
2007 - 2013
Kwanjeong Educational Foundation (관정교육재단) Fellow (Maximum $50,000/year)
INVITED TALKS (selected)
2023
Molecular and Celluar Cognition Society-Asia, Shanghai, China
UK-Korea Neuroscience Symposium, Oxford, U.K.
KSBNS (The Korean Society for Brain and Neural Sciences)
KSMCB (The Korean Society for Molecular and Cellular Biology)
2022
SYNAPSES (Seminars at Yale Neuroscience: Advanced Postdoc Extramural Series), New Haven, U.S.A.
KSBNS (The Korean Society for Brain and Neural Sciences)
Korean-American Bioscience Forum
2021
Danish Translational Neuroscience Institute, Aarhus, Denmark
Tufts School of Medicine, Boston, U.S.A.
Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, U.S.A.
2019
Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, U.S.A.
Molecular and Celluar Cognition Society, Chicago, U.S.A.
International Brain Research Organization (IBRO), Daegu, South Korea
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE & OUTREACH
2023
Session Chair, Molecular and Celluar Cognition Society, Washington D.C., U.S.A.
2023 - present
Review editor, the Editorial Board of Neural Networks and Cognition, Frontiers in Cognition
2021 - present
Review editor, the Editorial Board of Learning and Memory, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
2021
Mentor for America Needs You (ANY), mentoring first-generation college students in New York City
2020
Council activity for the Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society
AD HOC REVIEWER
Nature communications, Neuropsychopharmacology, Journal of Neuroscience, European Journal of Neuroscience, Experimental Brain Research, Frontiers, Molecular Brain