Jung-eun Chu

Biography

Education Ph.D., Atmospheric Science, Pusan National University, Aug. 2016 Theme: Quantifying the Absorption Efficiency of Organic Aerosol by Observations and Assessing its Climatic Effects M. S., Atmospheric Sciences, Pusan National University, 2009-2011 Theme: Identification of Nonlinear Coupled Intraseasonal Phases in the East Asian Summer Monsoon using Self Organizing Map B. S., Atmospheric Environmental Sciences, Pusan National University, 2005-2009 Work Experience Jan 2017 - present: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) Fellowships, Awards, and Honors National Junior Research Fellowship for “Core Leaders of the Future Basic Science Program” (Role: Principal investigator, 2013-2016, ~60,000 USD/year) Project title: Monsoon-aerosol interaction and climate feedback mechanism Travel Grant Award for young scientists, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) General Assembly 2015, June 2015 Outstanding Achievement Academic Award, President of National Sciences Collage at Pusan National University, June 2013 Future Scientist Award, Federation of Busan Science and Technology, December 2012. Outstanding Environment Research Academic Award, Environment Research Institute at Pusan National University, December 2012

Research Interest

Boreal summer monsoon intraseasonal oscillation, Nonlinear self-organizing map analysis, Biomass burning aerosol light absorption, Aerosol-monsoon interaction, U.S. Tornado outbreak and its relationship with transbasin SST gradient, Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum climate variability