Positions available (as of 2022 Feb)
Technicians/research assistants: closed
Undergrads/Full-time interns: open. Students outside SNU wishing to work only for a short-term period will not be considered. International students will be considered only if they can fully financially support themselves, due to restricted funding conditions.
Graduate students: considered following an internship
Postdocs: 1 open for exceptional PhD holders, with expertise in ex vivo or in vivo electrophysiology, or in molecular biology (relevant to single cell RNA-seq or TRAP techniques)
Why join the Kim lab?
Are you curious about how our brain processes various homeostatic and emotional states? The broad goal of our research program is to comprehensively understand the neural circuitry mediating homeostatic need states (e.g. hunger, thirst, coldness/hotness) and emotional states (e.g. anxiety, stress, …) in the mammalian brain, to determine how these states are assembled from diverse features and how dysfunction in these circuits leads to neurological and psychiatric disorders. We study these neural circuits with integrated anatomical and functional (both observational and causal) approaches, combining monitoring and decoding of neural activity with control of defined neural circuit elements, intact-tissue investigation tools (e.g. CLARITY) and utilize an array of techniques including optogenetics, fiber photometry, deep-brain calcium imaging using miniaturized fluorescence microendoscope, high-density freely moving neurophysiology, patch-clamp electrophysiology, rodent behavior, and molecular and viral methods. We welcome highly motivated and bright students from diverse academic backgrounds, including neuroscience, electrical engineering, chemical engineering, psychology, molecular biology, chemistry, and statistics. Neuroscience will unite all of us.
Undergrads
If you are passionate about studying the neural circuits underlying emotional behaviors and if you are looking for a position as a technician, research assistant or as a volunteer, please email Dr. Sung-Yon Kim (sungyonkim@snu.ac.kr) with your prior research experience, any relevant coursework, and an estimate of how much time you plan to spend in lab.