I received my bachelor’s degree in Food and Nutrition from Seoul National University and my Ph.D. in Pharmacology with a focus on Natural Products/Pharmacognosy from the same institution. I then worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Florida. My work focuses on database-assisted molecular networking for compound discovery in natural products and foods, followed by isolation and structure elucidation using NMR. In parallel, I perform metabolomics to reveal biomarkers in animal tissues and cell models using high-resolution mass spectrometry.