JongHyeon Park received his Ph.D. in Veterinary Preventive Medicine with a focus on Virology and Immunology from Chungnam National University in 2002. He began his career as a research scientist at the National Veterinary Research Institute (1993–2002) and moved to the Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency in 2002, where he was later promoted to head of the Center for FMD Vaccine Research in 2019. He also serves as an OIE-designated expert for the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Reference Laboratory and holds an adjunct professorship at Chungnam National University. His research topics mainly include foot-and-mouth disease virus pathogenesis, vaccine development and evaluation, molecular diagnostics, and immunological assessments in livestock.