Maesoon Im is a Principal Research Scientist at Brain Science Institute, KIST (Korea Institute of Science and Technology), Seoul, South Korea. He is also an Associate Professor of Bio-Medical Science & Technology Division, UST (University of Science & Technology). He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea. Then, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. At the University of Michigan as well as at KAIST, he fabricated various micro-/nano-devices for neuroscientific and biological applications. To add neuroscience expertise, he studied retinal prosthetics and visual neuroscience as a Research Fellow in the Department of Neurosurgery at the Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital. He began his principal investigator (PI) career as an Assistant Scientist in the Department of Ophthalmology at Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan. He was also with Wayne State University as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology and in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Experience

• Adjunct Associate Professor (2023 - present)

  Department of Converging Science and Technology

  Kyung Hee University

• Principal Research Scientist (2022 - present)

  Im Lab

  Korea Institute of Science and Technology

• Associate Professor (2020 - present)

  Division of Bio-Medical Science & Technology

  University of Science & Technology (UST)

• Visiting Scientist (2023 - 2024)

  Retinal Circuits & Computations

  Institut de la Vision

• Senior Research Scientist (2018 - 2022)

  Im Lab

  Korea Institute of Science and Technology

• Adjunct Assistant Professor (2016 - 2018)

  Wayne State University

• Assistant Scientist (2015 - 2018)

  Henry Ford Health Systems

• Research Fellow (2011 - 2015)

  Neural Prosthetic Lab

  Massachusetts General Hospital

• Research Fellow (2011 - 2015)

  Neural Prosthetic Lab

  Harvard Medical School

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2010 - 2011)

  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• Postdoctoral Researcher (2009 - 2010)

  Electrical Engineering

  Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Education

• PhD, Electrical Engineering (2003 - 2009)

  Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

• BS, Electrical Engineering (1999 - 2003)

  Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)