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๐Ÿ“ข โ€‹We are currently recruiting postdoctoral researchers.
In addition, motivated undergraduate and graduate students are always welcome to join our research activities. Regardless of your academic background, feel free to contact Prof. Cho at ykcho@unist.ac.kr for research opportunities.

๐Ÿ“ข UNIST ๋ฐ”์ด์˜ค๋ฉ”๋””์ปฌ๊ณตํ•™๊ณผ ์กฐ์œค๊ฒฝ ๊ต์ˆ˜ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์‹ค์€ ๋ฐ•์‚ฌํ›„์—ฐ๊ตฌ์›(Postdoctoral researcher)์„ ๋ชจ์ง‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด์™€ ๋”๋ถˆ์–ด ์—ด์ •์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ํ•™๋ถ€์ƒ ๋ฐ ๋Œ€ํ•™์›์ƒ์˜ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ์ฐธ์—ฌ๋„ ํ•ญ์ƒ ์—ด๋ ค ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ด€์‹ฌ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ถ„๋“ค์€ ์ „๊ณต๊ณผ ๊ด€๊ณ„์—†์ด ์–ธ์ œ๋“ ์ง€ ์กฐ์œค๊ฒฝ ๊ต์ˆ˜(ykcho@unist.ac.kr)์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฌธ์˜ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.

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Our lab pioneers next-generation biomedical technologies at the intersection of nanobio convergence, AI-driven diagnostics, and lab-on-a-chip platforms for precision and personalized medicine. We are looking for talented postdoctoral fellows to contribute to globally recognized, high-impact research.

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๐Ÿ” Research Themes:

๐Ÿ’ง Microfluidic exosome analysis for early diagnosis (e.g., pancreatic cancer)

๐Ÿ’ฟ Smart lab-on-a-disc (LabCD) for infectious/chronic disease monitoring

๐Ÿงฌ EV–organ-on-chip systems for modeling metastasis and drug response

๐Ÿงซ Engineered EV nanohybrids for cell and gene therapy

 

๐Ÿ”ง Preferred expertise in one or more of the following:

โœ… Centrifugal/droplet microfluidics
โœ… CRISPR, Molecular Beacon, RCA, digital PCR-based biosensing
โœ… 3D cell culture, organ-on-a-chip
โœ… Exosome/liposome and membrane nanostructures
โœ… Imaging, AI, automation, data analysis
โœ… Biochip hardware/software integration

 

๐ŸŽ“ Eligibility:

  • Ph.D. in a science or engineering (completed or near completion)

  • Peer-reviewed publication experience

  • Strong written/spoken English communication skills

 

๐Ÿ’ผ Position Highlights:

๐Ÿ•’ 2-year full-time contract (renewable upon evaluation)

๐Ÿ’ฐ KRW 40–60M/year (negotiable based on experience)

๐Ÿ  Campus housing available (including for families)

๐ŸŒ Korean nationals: Eligible for 6–12 months overseas research stay (Fall 2025 priority)

๐Ÿงช Access to state-of-the-art cleanrooms, core bio/nano facilities & advanced imaging platforms

 

๐Ÿ“ฌ Application Process (Rolling Basis – Open Until Filled):

๐Ÿ“„ Submit a single PDF including: 

  • Cover letter (1 page max: fit & preferred start date)

  • CV (incl. publication list & 2 references)

  • Research summary or career highlights (1–2 pages)

๐Ÿ“ง Email to: ykcho@unist.ac.kr

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์šธ์‚ฐ๊ณผํ•™๊ธฐ์ˆ ์›(UNIST) ๋ฐ”์ด์˜ค๋ฉ”๋””์ปฌ๊ณตํ•™๊ณผ ์กฐ์œค๊ฒฝ๊ต์ˆ˜ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์‹ค ๋ฐ•์‚ฌํ›„ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์›(Postโ€‘Doc) ๋ชจ์ง‘ ๊ณต๊ณ 

 

 ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์‹ค์€ ๋‚˜๋…ธ๋ฐ”์ด์˜ค ์œตํ•ฉ, AI ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์ง„๋‹จ ๋ฐ ์ž๋™ํ™”, ๋žฉ์˜จ์–ด์นฉ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ํ™˜์ž ์œ ๋ž˜ ์—‘์†Œ์ข€ ๋ถ„์„ ๋“ฑ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ฐจ์„ธ๋Œ€ ์˜์ƒ๋ช… ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜์„ ์„ ๋„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.  ํ˜„์žฌ ๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๊ณผ์ œ๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋‚˜๋…ธ๋ฐ”์ด์˜ค ์œตํ•ฉ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•œ ๊ฐœ์ธ๋งž์ถคํ˜• ์ •๋ฐ€ ์ง„๋‹จ ๋ฐ ์น˜๋ฃŒ ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์—ฐ๊ตฌํ•  ๋ฐ•์‚ฌ๊ธ‰ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์›์„ ๋ชจ์ง‘ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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๐Ÿ”ฌ ์ฃผ์š” ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๋ถ„์•ผ:

- ๋ฏธ์„ธ์œ ์ฒด ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์—‘์†Œ์ข€ ๋ถ„์„์„ ํ†ตํ•œ ์ทŒ์žฅ์•” ์กฐ๊ธฐ ์ง„๋‹จ
- ๋งŒ์„ฑ·๊ฐ์—ผ์„ฑ ์งˆํ™˜ ๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ„ฐ๋ง์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์Šค๋งˆํŠธ Lab-on-a-disc ๊ธฐ์ˆ 
- ์•” ์ „์ด ๋ฐ ์•ฝ๋ฌผ ๋ฐ˜์‘ ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ง์„ ์œ„ํ•œ EV–์žฅ๊ธฐ๋ชจ์‚ฌ์นฉ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ
- ์„ธํฌ/์œ ์ „์ž ์น˜๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ EV ๋‚˜๋…ธํ•˜์ด๋ธŒ๋ฆฌ๋“œ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ

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๐ŸŽฏ ์šฐ๋Œ€ ์ „๊ณต ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์ˆ :

- ๋ฏธ์„ธ์œ ์ฒด์นฉ(์›์‹ฌํ˜•/๋“œ๋กญ๋ ›) ์„ค๊ณ„ ๋ฐ ์ œ์ž‘
- CRISPR, RCA, molecular beacon, ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ PCR ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ๋ฐ”์ด์˜ค์„ผ์„œ
- 3D ์„ธํฌ๋ฐฐ์–‘, Organ-on-a-chip ์—ฐ๊ตฌ
- ์—‘์†Œ์ข€, ๋ฆฌํฌ์ข€, ์ƒ์ฒด๋ง‰ ์œ ๋ž˜ ๋‚˜๋…ธ์ž…์ž
- AI, ์˜์ƒ ๋ถ„์„, ์ž๋™ํ™” ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ
- ๋ฐ”์ด์˜ค์นฉ ํ•˜๋“œ์›จ์–ด/์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์›จ์–ด ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ

 

๐Ÿงพ ์ž๊ฒฉ์š”๊ฑด ๋ฐ ํ˜œํƒ:

- ๊ณตํ•™/์ž์—ฐ๊ณผํ•™๊ณ„์—ด ๋ฐ•์‚ฌํ•™์œ„ ์†Œ์ง€์ž(๋˜๋Š” ์˜ˆ์ •์ž)
- SCI๊ธ‰ ๋…ผ๋ฌธ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐ ์˜์–ด ์†Œํ†ต ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ
- ๊ณ„์•ฝ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„: 2๋…„ (์—ฐ์žฅ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ)
- ์—ฐ๋ด‰: 4,000~6,000๋งŒ ์› (๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ํ˜‘์˜)
- ๊ทผ๋ฌด์ง€: ์šธ์‚ฐ UNIST, ์บ ํผ์Šค ๋‚ด ๊ธฐ์ˆ™์‚ฌ ์‹ ์ฒญ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ
- ํ•œ๊ตญ์ธ ํฌ๋‹ฅ: ํ•ด์™ธ์—ฐ์ˆ˜ 6~12๊ฐœ์›” ๊ธฐํšŒ (2025๋…„ ๊ฐ€์„ ์šฐ์„  ๊ณ ๋ ค)
- ์ฒจ๋‹จ ํด๋ฆฐ๋ฃธ, ๋‚˜๋…ธ/๋ฐ”์ด์˜ค ์ฝ”์–ด์‹œ์„ค, ๋ถ„์„ ์žฅ๋น„ ์ด์šฉ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ

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๐Ÿ“ฉ ์ง€์›๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•:

- ์ปค๋ฒ„๋ ˆํ„ฐ (1์ชฝ), ์ด๋ ฅ์„œ(CV, ๋…ผ๋ฌธ๋ชฉ๋ก ํฌํ•จ, ์ถ”์ฒœ์ธ 2๋ช… ์—ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ˜), ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๊ณ„ํš์„œ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์š”์•ฝ (1~2์ชฝ)์„ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ PDF๋กœ ์ œ์ถœ
- ์ œ์ถœ์ฒ˜: ykcho@unist.ac.kr

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