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Research Scientist

Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (PI: Dr. Daniela Sammelr)

• fMRI/EEG encoding of musical emotions

Research Associate

Duke University (PI: Dr. Tobias Overath)

• MEG correlates of auditory percepts
• fMRI encoding of natural speech

Postdoc Fellow

University of Cambridge (PI: Dr. Valerie Voon)

• Intracortical myelination and clinical implications
• Dynamics of resting-state connectivity

Ph.D in Psychology

Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (PI: Dr. Thomas R. Knösche; fully supported by IMPRS NeuroCom Program)

Dissertation: Myeloarchitecture and Intrinsic Functional Connectivity of Auditory Cortex in Musicians with Absolute Pitch`

Research Assistant

Seoul National University (PIs: Dr. Moo K. Chung; Dr. Jun Soo Kwon)

Projects: Graph theoretical analysis, Mathematical shape analysis

MS in Cognitive Science

Seoul National University (PI: Dr. C. K. Chung)

Thesis: The effect of conditional probability of chord progression in Western music corpus on brain response: an MEG study

BAs in Econimics & Psychology (dual majors)

Yonsei University (fully supported by Suam Scholarship Foundation)

Interests: econometrics, experimental psychology

Diploma in Musical Composition

Sunhwa Arts High School

Guest Editor

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United Sates of America (PNAS)

Review Editor

Frontiers in Neuroscience (specialty section: Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience)

Ad Hoc Reviewer

Various journals (alphabetical order):

Brain and Behavior, Brain Connectivity, Brain Research, Brain Structure and Function, Cognitive Affective Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognitive Neurodynamics, eLife, Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Frontiers in Psychology, Human Brain Mapping, International Journal of Psychophysiology, Journal of Affective Disorders, Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of New Music Research, Journal of Physiological Anthropology, NeuroImage, Neuropsychologia, Neuroscience Letters, Perception, PLOS ONE, Psychophysiology, Scientific Reports

First lieutenant

Republic of Korea Air Force

Mendatory service, honorably discharged

Academy Fellowship Grant

Johanna Quandt Young Academy, Goethe University Frankfurt, DE

Postdoc Research Grant

The Charles Lafitte Foundation Program for Research in Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University, US

Summa Cum Laude

Institute of Psychology. University of Leipzig, DE

Conference Scholarship

The 5th Conference for Neurosciences and Music, IT

Ph.D scholarship

International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) on Neuroscience of Communication, DE

BA scholarship

Suam foundation, KR

Neural representation of affective experiences evoked by music

• Delevopment of high-quality music set ManyMusic🎶 with MTG researchers
• Dense sampling (1K+ stimuli) of neuroimaging (fMRI and EEG)
• Partially suported by JQYA grant to SGK

Temporal Processing in Tonal and Atonal Music

• Large-scale online behavioral experiment (Amazon MTurk)
• Partially supported by Charles Lafitte grant to SGK