Dr.Kim is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry in the College of Medicine at Korea University. His professional activities extend beyond the area of pure clinical or research work. Dr. Kim has well over 170 publications in peer-reviewed international journals, including Biological Psychiatry, Molecular Psychiatry, Clinical Journal of Psychiatry, and Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry and 20 publications of book chapters and have made over 90 academic presentations in my area of interest. He is a fellow of Collogicum Internationale Neuropsychopharmacologicum (CINP), International Society for Affective Disorders (ISAD), World Federation of the Society of biological Psychiatry (WFSBP). He currently sits on the editorial boards of some leading academic journals in the field of neurobiology, including Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, Psychiatry Investigation, World Journal Psychiatry, Annals of Depression and Anxiety, Psychiatry Journal and so on. I received prestigious awards such as the Astrageneca Award and the Dr. Paul Janssen Schizophrenia Research Award. Dr. Kim is currently the president of Korean society of Biological Psychiatry.

Adult Psychiatry: biological psychiatry, psychoneuroimmunology, psychiatric genetics, biomarkers.