Dr. Il-Moon Chung

Dr. Il-Moon Chung is a Groundwater Hydrologist and a Senior Research Fellow at the Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT), South Korea. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Civil Engineering at Yonsei University in 1998 with “Hydrogeological modelling of underground storage cavern and analysis of solute transport”. After working at the SK Engineering & Construction Research Center for 3 years, he has been conducting research on groundwater management in Korea at KICT since 2002. His special interest is “surface water-groundwater integrated hydrological analysis”, and he has developed a fully integrated SWAT-MODFLOW model. From 2012 to 2013, he conducted the research “Groundwater management options in Korea” with Dr. Marios Sophocleous as a visiting professor at the Kansas Geological Survey. He has published over 140 peer-reviewed journal papers so far and is serving as a Senior Editor of KSCE J. of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research (2022) and the Chief Editor of J. of the Korea Water Resources Association (2021–2022).