Dr. Seongjin Hong

Dr. Seongjin Hong obtained his Ph.D. from Korea University in 2014. The title of the Ph.D thesis was "Effect-Directed Assessment of Organic Toxic Substances in Oil-Contaminated Coastal Sediments". Afterward, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Seoul National University (Korea) and Griffith University (Australia), and in 2016, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Marine Environmental Science, Chungnam National University (Daejeon, South Korea). He is currently conducting independent research with four Ph.D and three Master's students (Home Page: http://mocl.cnu.ac.kr/). He has published a total of 107 papers since 2009 (49 papers as the first and corresponding author), with an h-index of 27 (SCOPUS, https://www.scopus.com/authid/ detail.uri?authorId=55523102131). He currently serves as Associate Editor of Regional Studies in Marine Science (Elsevier, https://www.sciencedirect.com/...), Associate Editor of Frontiers in Marine Science (Frontiers, https://loop.frontiersin.org/p...), and has served as MEQ Member of North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) for 5 years. His main research interests are 1) distribution, behavior, and bioaccumulation of hazardous substances in the environment, 2) causative algae, behavior, and the fate of biotoxins, 3) source identification of pollutants using compound-specific stable isotope ratios, and 4) identification of key toxicants in environmental samples using effect-directed analysis (EDA). For the past 5 years, he has identified several novel endocrine disruptors in environmental samples, such as sediment, wastewater, and biological samples, using EDA combined with full-scan screening analysis. He has published 8 EDA papers in Environmental Science and Technology (3 articles), Journal of Hazardous Materials (3 articles), and Science of the Total Environment (2 articles) over the past 3 years, and presented EDA methodology and was verified through peer reviews. The papers have been cited 84 times to date. Of the three papers published in ES&T, two were selected for the Supplementary Cover (see attached file). He is currently one of the most active young researchers in the field of EDA research and has been awarded the 2023 James J. Morgan Early Career Award in ES&T.