Chul studied international business and policy at SNU. His research on the process of internationalization of Korean companies based on the concept of value chain led him to study intellectual property law in the UK. Upon completion of the LL.M. program and legal studies in the UK, he worked for an international law firm in London, Allen & Overy, as a lawyer in the field of international finance. He has been interested in combining IP and finance as a base for developing IP and innovation ecosystem. He joined STP in order to expand his research on IP and innovation through understanding the policy aspects of science and technology. He is also interested in the institutional aspects of science and technology development from policy and legal perspectives.

He spent his teenage years in Manila, Philippines and these years made him aware about the inequalities all over the world. He always thought about what can he do to help the world and he struggled in finding the ways to do it. He felt that studying engineering is not the perfect way to do it so he decided to apply to STP. He is mainly interested in studying how R&D policies in Korea are being made. To foster and guide science and technology research that will help solve the inequalities in the world, he hopes to study and research the policies that are being made.

Doyoung is interested in standards and standardization for governing 'risk' in contemporary human society. In particular, how the concept of 'standards' produces ideas about the "certified, accurate, and objective" risk assessment model and tools for practical applications to enhance quality of life in the area of health and food. Her main research interest currently is the study of standardizing brain health risk in Korea. She is presently a senior project manager in the Division of Policy and Cooperation at the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS).

Hanbyul majored in mechanical engineering at KAIST. During his undergraduate years, he participated in planning and providing knowledge service programs to children from low-income families. Gradually, he has become interested in the process of establishing a proper education system for the public. His particular interest lies in the stream of knowledge: where and how it flows. With this question in mind, he joined STP, hoping to make a better society for everyone.

Joo-Sang was a senior researcher of ETRI and has been dedicated for international standardization activities, serving as project editor, secretary, and convenor in working groups, sub-commitees, and technical committees under ISO and ISO/IEC JTC 1 since 2004. Also he has devoted to education of volunteers for Korean National Body's standardization activities. In 2013, he received Minister prize of Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy for standardization achievement. His research focuses on how to interpret the roles of a state in R&D and diffusion of ICT when the international constraints form hierarchical relations over the competing countries. In view of the results so far achieved, beyond typical arguments of developmental vs. regulatory states, there is much room beyond the existing argument of states' roles.

Kyuri grew up in Nairobi and this upbringing has greatly influenced her academic interests in international development and public health policy. Based on a belief that health is a human right and that decision-makers have the power but also the responsibility to implement policies that safeguard the right to health of the members of society, Kyuri's main research interests lie in the management of infectious diseases, the relationship between public health policy and historical, political and social contexts, and social governance of disease. Her current research focuses on the national tuberculosis management policy of South Korea.

Ohsung has over 20 years of experience as a system integration engineer in various aerospace programs: Smart UAV program(KARI, 2002~2012), T-50 program(KAI,1997~2002) and for the commercial aircraft program(Samsung Aerospace,1994~1997). Recently he has been involved in 3 areas which are also part of his research interests: 5 year Plan for development of Aircraft industry in Korea and Strategic planning for national UAV development(as a supportor for MOTIE), and Government R&D policy support(advising NSF for R&D process manual, STEPI for R&D governance and autonomy of institutes, DAPA for military-civil cooperation in aerospace arena). His major research interestes are 3 areas : big science(aerospace, defense, energy), modeling of R&D policy for the effective foresight, government led innovation strategy and its environment.

Seung Hee has majored chemistry in her undergraduate years, and shifted majors to science and technology policy to study the international politics of climate change and energy. She wrote her masters thesis about renewable energy policies and citizen participation in an urban landscape. Her research interest involves infrastructure, political inequality, ecology, and transnationalism. Based on anthropology and science and technology studies (STS), her recent project concerns island imaginaries of renewable energy infrastructure, where Jeju, the biggest island in Korea, is becoming a subjected place for energy experiments and a global show window of green energy futures.

Soyoung is interested in space policy at both national and international levels and hopes to understand it from the science and technology policy perspective within the broader social, economic, and political context. She currently works at the policy department of Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) and provides support to the Korean government in establishing the national space policy.

Sulaiman obtained the Korean Government Scholarship (KGSP) to undertake the PhD in S&T Policy at the STP KAIST. Before coming to Korea, he was working as a senior researcher at the Research Council of Oman, the main governmental research regulating and funding body in the country. His research is related to role of technologies in radicalization. He is analyzing how the technological platforms, both online and offline, have shaped and are shaping the process of radicalization. He is concentrating on the Jihadi Nasheeds as a main radical propaganda tool.

Sun Woong has spent many years growing up in New Zealand and Australia in his youth period. After graduating from university, while he was working at the Centre for Asian and Ethnic Minority Health Research as Centre Coordinator and Research Assistant, he developed qualitative research skills. However, his interests are not only confined to these previous work experiences, but include health care policy, health economics, leadership, and community development. He hopes to develop research plans on the broader effect of health care policy around leadership, intervention in media, and youth health on higher level of government agencies.

Taemin is mainly interested in standards and standardization in science and technology which have a strong influence on public health policy and biotech/pharmaceutical industry. At STP, she intends on studying history of medicine and public health, creation and proliferation of risk cultures, politics behind governmental intervention on health, and harmonization of regulatory requirements in medicine and pharmaceutical industry, especially in relation to science and technology policy. Furthermore, she is working on specific research topics such as tobacco litigation, changing paradigm in biomedicine industry, as well as the meaning of quality of life in this era of biopolitics.

Youjung Shin is interested in the formation of big science in the late 20th century and its impact especially in a small country like South Korea. To this end, she now delves into the case of brain research in Korea and the U.S., revealing how the ideas of making 'big theory' and 'big data' in brain research were developed and spread across the Pacific. This historical and cross-national comparative study is expected to unveiling the relation between the modes of governance in brain research and the particular modes of understanding the brain. It will illuminate the meaning of bigness in brain research and its influence on investigating the brain in a certain social and cultural context.

Kijun studied urban planning and transportation engineering in his undergraduate period. However, engineering solutions are not enough to solve urban problems. Based on close interaction with his informants, he now tries to view urban issues as a complex relationship between various humans and technologies. He specifically interested in smart urbanism, safety infrastructure, and gendered public security and anxiety.

Science and technology is often easily misunderstood as an exclusive property of the engineering field. However, Heesun strongly believes that a concord between science technology and humanity social science will bring sensual satisfaction beyond physical convenience. What she is most interested in these days is the social problems unintentionally caused by newly created technology or machines. She hopes to explore how science and technology and the society interact with each other, what the problems and respective solutions are, and ultimately propose the desirable direction in which science and technology should proceed.

Korea has imbalance in relations between Science and the Society, and the imbalance might be a serious problem. Seolmin makes efforts to suggest better idea for actual healing to relationship between Science and Society. He thinks the genuine healing is to solve the problems related to the two fields through communication, not to focus on the problems of each field.

Chemistry, STS, and Design These are the three words that best describe Sungeun's interest. Even after finishing his study on chemistry, Sungeun continues to maintain a chemist's vantage point to constantly examine the micro dynamics of things and its relation to macro structures. Such interest is no only applied to chemical substances but also to human societies; he wants to understand the complex relationship between micro dynamics of STS and macro structures lying beneath societies. Finally, he always tries to present his understanding in any form of design: images, documents, presentations, etc.

Manseok is an active major in the Republic of Korea Army. He is teaching military history and strategy at the Army College and looking forward to contribute to the ROK national security with academic background in science and technology policy. His research interests are technological determinism in defense arena and how science and technology affects the revolution in military affairs in social, political and cultural context.

Joonhyeok majored chemistry and computer science in undergraduate school. In this period, he felt that those scientific knowledge make big influence to our society. Especially, computer science course gave him big recognion that technological improvement can change the shape of human beings behavior and social acts. To improve this idea, he decided to study about the perspective of social science and humanities.

My primary interest is at how public R&D institutes and firms shape innovation policy, and in turn, how the policy and R&D programs affect the firms' innovation. I'm currently studying the policy process for science, technology, and innovation, focusing on a consensus building and funding system. Investigating an agenda-setting process on public R&D since the late 1990s of South Korea, I plan to understand how do the catch-up policy rationales in 1980s evolve into the recent policy goals for economic growth, which is overwhelming the majority of S&T policies.

Dongjoon is mainly interested in designing efficient and comprehensive science and technology policies and strategies for sustainable growth. Thus his main research interests include national innovation system, bottom-up innovative ecosystem, cluster innovation and SME policies. Prior to joining KAIST, he has also worked in the nuclear energy sector thus his research area is not just confined to innovation policies, he also has a keen interest in nuclear policy as well.

Sangkyung is interested in policies for user-centered technology development aimed at resolving social issues. In other words, she has interest in how to expand the scope of beneficiaries of the technology for all the people. She currently works at the Human Resources Strategy Section of Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute(ETRI).

Heewon is interested in how scientific knowledge travel and adapt to diverse geographical locales and sociocultural contexts. In particular, she is interested in the interplay of medical knowledge and technology, policies, and perceptions of illness and human body. Her current project concerns how the idea of professionalism and expertise have been established among Korean doctors after the doctors’ strike in 2000. Other research interests include health issues of GMO and nuclear power plants in Korea.

Hyejung is interested in the innovation of the Republic of Korea armed development system from the perspective of the Fourth Industrial Revoluton. She is an military officer in the Republic of Korea Army and is teaching land warfare and operational art at the Joint Forces Military University. She tries to reduce the gap between the military theory and the management in battlefield, and the viewpoint of the civilian in the military and the viewpoint of the civilian in the military.

Junho was formerly a Spanish interpreter with work experiences in KDI, Organization of American States, SKnetworks, among many others. He naturally gained interest in the science and technology policy field through participation in multiple Government ODA including KSP with Colombia, Honduras and Paraguay. His latest research topics while working in STEPI (Science Technology Policy Institute) were ‘Impact Evaluation of R&D Investment on Firms' Growth’, ‘Inquiry of characteristics of creative organizations’, ‘Inclusive innovation’.
His major research interests are: assessment of R&D effectiveness, International Development (development of STI ecosystem) and Big data.

Bitna Lee studied chemical and biomolecular engineering and science and technology policy at KAIST. Studying at KAIST and meeting people in the science and engineering field, she became interested in the policies governing science and technology. Also, working as an intern at AAAS Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy (CSTSP), she decided to further study the political and social approaches toward science and technology. She hopes to study more about the implications of science and technology on biomedical, public health and social welfare to improve access and quality of care

Joonha first decided to minor STP in his undergrad period to be an engineer who is not alienated from society. Now he found himself fitting better in STP. He is interested in social institutions which cover S&T issues, such like Technology Assessment or University. Also, after his intern experience in AAAS OISA(Office of International and Security Affair), he is having a dream to establish an independent STP think-tank in Korea.

Richard's primary interest is studying philosophical and methodological aspects of scientific inquiry. Since his enrollment in KAIST as an undergraduate physics major, he has been greatly interested in how thought processes evolve and interact to define, formulate, and change scientific inquiry. He believes that understanding such process can facilitate and strengthen the development of science and technology policy frameworks. Furthermore, due to his ongoing interest in operations research, military studies, and combative systems, Richard intends to study how science and technology shape strategic thinking as well as formulation of defense policies.

HyeJeong Han is interested in the impact of computer on human epistemology, and the interplay between scientific knowledge, contextual values, and public policy. Her current research interests include philosophy of computational science and machine learning, and applied ethics for computer and information technology.

After receiving her master’s degree at KAIST STP, Daeun currently works on strategic research planning tasks at STEPI (Science and Technology Policy Institute). Her working experiences expanded her academic inquiry to the dynamics of policy making process and S&T policy governance in Korea. Government-funded research institute is an interesting research subject to see who are considered policy experts and how policies attain their legitimacy in Korean S&T policy governance. She hopes to connect her everyday working experiences to her academic project.