Dr. Choi is a director at the Department of Microbial Resources, National Marine Biodiversity Institute of Korea. She has previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (Oct, 2010-Mar, 2015) and at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (Mar-Jul, 2010). Her research experience involves the isolation and characterization of biologically active compounds for drug screening and pharmaceutical biology.