Dr. Kyu-Suk Kang is a Professor at the Department of Forest Sciences, Seoul National University. He completed his PhD studies in Forest Genetics at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU-Umea) in 2001, and has been awarded the IUFRO outstanding doctoral awards in 2005. He has published more than 50 SCI papers in various journals, and serves as a present for Korean Society of  Forest Genetics and Physiology, as well as an executive deputy for International Polar Commission (IPC/FAO). His teaching disciplines include forest genetics, tree biotechnology, and forest medicinal plants, and his interests include seed orchards, tree breeding, genomic selection, etc.