Hello!

I am a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business. My research explores how current workplace contexts—social, physical, and now digital—shape employee proactivity. To this end, I employ longitudinal field surveys, experience-sampling studies, laboratory and online experiments, and qualitative interviews, to pursue one overarching question: When and how do changing work contexts facilitate or inhibit proactive behaviors?

I earned my PhD in Organizational Behavior from the University of Maryland; MS in Organizational Behavior from Seoul National University; MS in Journalism from Columbia University; and BS in Business Administration from Seoul National University.

Prior to joining the academia, I worked in the finance industry, and as a journalist at Bloomberg, covering corporate governance issues at major chaebols (i.e., South Korea’s family-run conglomerates), and Korea’s auto industry.

Education

University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business

Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (2024)

Columbia University in the City of New York

Master of Science in Journalism (2011)

Seoul National University

Master of Science in Business Administration (2018)
Bachelor of Business Administration (2009)