What have you been up to since your time at DAS?

After receiving MS and PhD degrees in 2004 and 2009, respectively, from DAS, I stayed at DAS for as a post-doc and then as a research scientist. In August 2017 I moved to Oklahoma and joined the Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies (CIMMS) as a research scientist. And then after seven months at CIMMS, I accepted a faculty position offer from the Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences at Pusan National University, Busan, Republic of Korea, on March 2018. My research interests are the microphysical and radiative properties of clouds using in-situ aircraft measurements and theoretical calculations.

How have you benefitted from your degree in atmospheric sciences from the University of Illinois?

Although I did not completely realize it at the time, I had very high-level training from professors and colleagues at DAS. The classes, seminars, and advice I got at DAS became part of me and motivated me to keep doing research.

What’s next for you?

I will keep working on my research and teaching. A goal for the next several years is to set up my research group: receiving graduate students and research funding, building computing clusters, and proposing in-situ research flights.