Professor Yun was selected as the best Korean Molecular Biologist by the Resarch.com, an educational platform that helps students find the best schools, academic opportunities, and career paths for two consecutive years.
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The Professor published a total of 260 research papers as of the 21st of December, 2023 and was recognized as the best scientist with 18,642 citations. 9 Professors are ranked including Professor Yun, Konkuk University and Professor Kim, Seoul National University.
Professor Yun is a world-class leading scientist in Plant environment stress signalling. He has been publishing internationally renowned research journals including but not limited to Cell, Nature Genetics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) while guest-lecturing at 88 different international symposia, universities, research institutions including Gordon Conference, Keystone Symposia, Max Plank Institute, Carnegie Institute at Stanford University and many others. He contributed to taking Korea’s plant bioscience to the next level by serving as presidents, and high-ranking officials at different institutions and organisations such as the BK21+ Project group, the Korean Society of Plant Biologists, etc.
With his achievements, he is a regular member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST), and won various awards including the Best Research Award (Korean Society of Plant Biologists(, Best Academic Award (Korean Society of Plan Biotechnology), Best Research Paper Award (Korean Federation of Science & Technology), Macrogen Scientist Award (Korean Society for Molecular and Cellar Biology), Cargill Life Science Award (Korean Academy of Science and Technology), Hahn Kwang Ho Agriculture Research Award, Academic Contribution Award (Korean Society of Plant Biologists).