PROFESSOR

Environmental Informatics & Biotechnology Laboratory

Keunje Yoo, 유근제

Professional Career

  • 2023 – Present

Associate professor at National Korea Maritime and Ocean University

  • 2019 – 2023

Assistant professor at National Korea Maritime and Ocean University

  • 2017 – 2019

Post-doc. at Center for Infection and Immunity, Columbia University

Post-doc. at Dept. of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University

  • 2015 – 2017

Research Fellow at Division of  Natural Resources Conservation Korea Environment Institute (KEI)

  •  2012

Visiting Researcher at Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University

Education

  • 2008 – 2015

Ph.D. in Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University

  • 2001 – 2008

B.S. in Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Konkuk University

​Committee Memberships

– The Korean Society of Environmental Engineers (2023 – Present)

– Korean Society on Water Environment (2023 – Present)

– Korean Society of Water & Wastewater (2023 – Present)

– Association for Carbon-Neutral Circular Economy (2023 – Present)

– Korean Society of Environmental DNA (2023 – Present)

– International Conference on Applied Convergence Engineering (2023 – Present)

– Korean Society of Soil and Groundwater Environment (2021 – Present)

– The Korean Environmental Sciences Society (2020 – Present)

– The Microbiological Society of Korea (2020 – Present)

– Asian Symposium of Microbial Ecology (2020 – Present)

Advisory Members

– 부산광역시 물관리위원회, 전문위원 (2023 – Present)

– 부산광역시 환경정책위원회, 전문위원 (2023 – Present)

– 부산광역시 해양수도정책과, 해양환경관리위원 (2022 – Present)

– ISO (국제표준화기구) 바이오에어로졸 분야, 한국위원 (2021 – Present)

– 환경부 낙동강유역환경청, 기술자문위원 (2021 – Present)

– 한국산업기술진흥협회, 기술인증 심사위원 (2021 – Present)

– 부산도시공사, 기술자문위원 (2020 – Present)

Research Specialities

– Carbon dioxide reduction and resource recovery in wastewater treatment using microalgae and bacterial symbiosis
– Pollution behavior and biological degradation mechanism of microplastics in marine environment
– Multi-Omics approaches for environmental microorganisms community analysis and functional assessment
– Detection and hazardous risk assessment of harmful microorganisms in the environment
– Environmental pollution monitoring and impact assessment using big data
– Characterization of airborne microbial community, bioaerosol​
– Performance evaluation based on marine environment data for the development of oil spill recovery and remediation technology