Education

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 2019 

  • Thesis title: "Novel micro/nanofluidic system for separation and monitoring of cells and proteins in perfusion" (Supervisor: Prof. Jongyoon Han)

  • Micro/Nanofluidic BioMEMS Group

• M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University in 2013. 

  • Thesis title: "Novel encoding method using a photoluminescent material for microparticles and its applications" (Supervisor: Prof. Sunghoon Kwon)

  • Biophotonics and Nano Engineering Lab

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2011. 

Work Experience

• Senior Scientist, Advanced BioAnalytics Team, Corporate Research, Sartorius (Oct 2025 - Present) 

• Scientist / Senior Scientist, Advanced Bioprocessing Team, Corporate Research, Sartorius (Aug 2021 - Sep 2025) 

• Postdoctoral Associate, Micro/Nanofluidic BioMEMS Group, MIT (Feb 2019 - Jul 2021)

• Scientific and Technical Advisor, WhirlCell (May 2015 - Jul 2021)

• Graduate Research Assistant, MIT (Feb 2014 - Jan 2019)

• Graduate Research Assistant, Seoul National University, (Mar 2011 - Feb 2013)

Past Major Research Projects at MIT

• Development of a microfluidic cell retention device for perfusion of mammalian cell suspension

• Continuous online monitoring of critical quality attributes (e.g., antibody purity or binding affinity) using a nanofluidic protein separation device

Research Keywords

• Small-scale bioprocessing

• Process analytical technology (PAT)

• Bioanalytics

• Platform development 

• Technology evaluation

• Micro/nanofluidics

• Biomanufacturing innovation