Hello, Everybody!

I am a master's student interested in the astonishing diversity and the ecological range of insects (currently Lepidoptera—butterflies and moths). I am going to learn and study the phenomenon using various data (e.g., molecular data, ecological traits, morphology, etc.) and manifold biological perspectives (e.g., phylogeny, biogeography, gene expression, evo-devo, etc.). As not only a student but also a scientist, I would like to detect some gaps in current findings within the insect-evolution world and collaborate with many researchers to decipher those!

My present works are

• Evolution of the erebid moths
• Systematic taxonomy of the subfamily Erebinae in the Korean Peninsula

My interests incorporate

• Disclosing the secrets of way high biodiversity within lepidopteran insects
• Coevolution between lepidopterans and their primary food source—plants, especially angiosperms
• Revealing evolutionary trajectories of living things through an integrative approach with fossil data, ecological data, and gene family data that might be detected from molecular data
• Phylogeography
• Population genetics and species delimitation for various purposes (e.g., to find over- or underestimation of certain taxa, to recover the evolutionary routes or the gene flow patterns within specific populations)