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Je-Kyun Park
Je-Kyun Parkis the director of the NanoBiotech Laboratory and a Professor of Bio and Brain Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He received his Ph.D. degree in biotechnology from the KAIST in 1992. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the USA (1996-1997). He worked at the LG Electronics Institute of Technology in Korea (1992-2002), where he was the Group Leader of bioelectronics research. He joined the Department of BioSystems at the KAIST as an Associate Professor in 2002 and served as the Department Head of Bio and Brain Engineering (2006-2009). His expertise spans interdisciplinary fields of biotechnology, bioelectronics and bioMEMS. He has served as an Editorial Board Member of several international journals, including Biosensors and Bioelectronics, and BioChip Journal. In 2010, he was appointed to the Chair of the BioMEMS and Lab-on-a-chip Committee at The Korean BioChip Society. His main research focuses on the microfluidic lab-on-a-chip platform for biological sample processing and detection, including optoelectrofluidic manipulation, hydrophoretic separation, magnetophoretic assay, and cell-based assay.
