Seong-Gi Kim, PhD

Director of Neuroscience Imaging Research Center in the Institute for Basic Science
Emeritus Professor of Biomedical Engineering in Sungkyunkwan University

Seong-Gi Kim, PhD, is the Director of Neuroscience Imaging Research Center in the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), and Emeritus Professor of Biomedical Engineering in Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU). He did his graduate works on in vivo NMR spectroscopy (1984-88) at Washington University, followed by postdoctoral training in structural biology at the University of Washington. In 1991, he joined the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research in the University of Minnesota, actively participating in one of the first human fMRI studies in 1992. After advancing to the rank of full Professor, he moved to the University of Pittsburgh in 2002.

In 2009, he was appointed as the inaugural Paul C. Lauterbur Chair in Imaging Research, established in honor of Nobel laureate and MRI inventor Paul C. Lauterbur. He returned to Korea in 2014 to establish a new neuroimaging center for multi-modal and multi-species research. His major research focus is to develop magnetic resonance imaging techniques for measuring brain physiology and function, to elucidate the relationships between neural activity and hemodynamic responses using animal models, and to apply imaging tools for answering questions in systems neuroscience.