Sung Un Huh is currently a professor at the Department of Life Sciences at Kunsan National University, Korea. He graduated from KunKuk University in 2005 and received his B.S. degree. He majored in microbiology and studied cancer during his undergraduate years. He received him M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in molecular and cell biology from Korea University in 2011. From 2011 to 2017, when he was a visiting postdoc at the Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL) in the United Kingdom, he began to follow Dr. Jonathan Jones to study plant immune protein function. Since then, his research on autophagy and metacaspase is currently being conducted from an evolutionary perspective.