Hello, Everybody!

I am a master's student interested in the astonishing diversity and capacity for adaptation of insects (currently Lepidoptera—butterflies and moths). I am learning and studying those phenomena using various data (e.g., genomic data, ecological traits, morphology, etc.) and several biological perspectives (e.g., phylogeny, gene expression, etc.). As not only a student but also a scientist, I would like to find missing parts of current knowledge of insect science and collaborate with scientists who have similar curiosity to decipher such questions.

My present works

• Evolution of the Erebidae
• Systematic taxonomy of the subfamily Erebinae (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) in the Korean Peninsula

My interests

• Disclosing the secrets of high biodiversity within lepidopteran insects
• Coevolution between lepidopterans and their primary food source (plants, especially angiosperms)
• Revealing evolutionary trajectories of living things via an integrative approach with fossil data, ecological data, and particularly molecular data
• Phylogeography
• Population genomics for various purposes (e.g., species delimitaion, to find over- or underestimation of certain taxa, to recover the evolutionary routes of certain target living things)