His major field is high-energy physics. He has been from 2009 to 2017 in the ALICE collaboration for the LHC experiment at CERN. He serves as a consultant for Center for Underground Physics (CUP) at Institute of Basic Science (IBS), an experimental facility for astro-particle physics.

He has been the Korean delegate to Global Science Forum (GSF) since 2000 up to present, including five years of the GSF bureau members between 2017 and 2022. He has been participated in several GSF agenda on research infrastructure issues such as “Optimising the operation and use of national research infrastructures,” “Reference framework for assessing the scientific and socio-economic impact of research infrastructure,” and “Digital platforms for facilitating access to research infrastructures,” some years ago. He has attended the ICRI 2018 which was held in Vienna, Austria.

He will describe briefly on how the concept of research infrastructure has been incorporated with the S&T policy in Korea. The research infrastructure, both national and international, is essential for a medium-sized country like Korea to level up the national S&T competitive power. Thus, Korea has established a national platform for optimal operation of research infrastructure scattered within the country. It has also encouraged Korean researchers to participate in the big international research projects, either in-kind or via collaboration. A typical example might be ITER. Korean government is aware of the economic impact of ITER, that the project has indeed created new jobs, expanded industries, and induced relevant technical innovations.

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