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Choe, Jae Chun (Jae Chun Choe, South Korea)

Choe, Jae Chun (Jae Chun Choe, South Korea)

Founding President of the National Institute of Ecology, Korea
Co-President of the Climate Change Center

Dr. Choe was born in Gangneung, the most mountainous region of Korea near the east coast and studied zoology at Seoul National University. He received his PhD in evolutionary biology from Harvard University under the guidance of Professors Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson. Before returning to Korea in 1994, he worked at Harvard University as full-time lecturer, the University of Michigan as assistant professor, and Junior Fellow at the Michigan Society of Fellows. Between 1994 and 2006 he was a professor of biological sciences at Seoul National University. In 2006 he moved to Ewha Womans University as University Chair Professor to establish a new graduate program in EcoScience. He served as the director of the Ewha Natural History Museum for 7 years and is now serving as the Founding President of the National Institute of Ecology. He has served as the President of Ecological Society of Korea and is now Co-President of the Climate Change Center. With Jane Goodall, he established the Biodiversity Foundation in 2013.

 

Dr. Choe has published more than 100 scientific papers and is currently serving as an associate editor of Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology and on editorial board of Evolutionary Psychology, Ecological Research, Journal of Ethology, Frontiers in Behavioral and Evolutionary Biology, and Journal of Insect Behavior. In addition to 6 professional books in English, as a well-known popularizer of science in Korea, he has written or translated more than 30 books in Korean. He writes about nature and culture in his own weekly column of Chosun Daily and gives lectures for the general public. He received numerous awards including John Henry Comstock Award from the Entomological Society of America, the 1st Korea Science Culture Award, the 8th Asian Environmental Award, and the 16th Women’s Movement Award.

 

 

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