Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
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Weon Shik Han is a professor at the Department of Earth System Sciences, Yonsei University, South Korea. His research focuses on environmental, climate change, and energy related research such as safety assessment for radioactive waste repository, geologic CO2 sequestration, contaminant transport, density-dependent flow, fault hydrologeology, and geothermal energy development with an emphasis in multi-phase phenomena, reactive transport modeling, and heat transport.
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Associate Editor
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Soonyoung Yu is a Senior Researcher at KIGAM and, as of 2026, serves as the head of the Groundwater Resources Research Center. Her current research focuses on the intersection of hydrogeology and artificial intelligence (AI), with particular emphasis on groundwater yield potential analysis. She is especially attentive to the physical interpretation of AI model results and emphasizes interpretability and validation by integrating explainable AI techniques with field-based evidence. From 2026 to 2030, she will lead a project on the development of an AI-enhanced groundwater interactive mapping system (AEGIS), aiming to advance data-driven decision-making in groundwater management.
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Jinsung An is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Hanyang University ERICA. His research focuses on developing innovative materials and technologies for environmental remediation/restoration, particularly for contaminant removal and enhancing the climate resilience of soils.
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Jina Jeong is an Associate Professor at the School of Earth System Science (Major in Geology), Kyungpook National University, South Korea. Her research focuses on Geological Data Science, integrating geological and hydrological data to understand and predict groundwater systems. She investigates how aquifer heterogeneity governs groundwater flow and storage, and develops hybrid modeling frameworks that combine data-driven methods with physical principles to deliver robust predictions at the watershed scale, supporting sustainable groundwater management and informed decision-making.
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Minjune Yang is a professor at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Pukyong National University, South Korea. His research focuses on groundwater, hydrogeology, and environmental water quality, with particular interests in subsurface flow and solute transport, contaminant behavior in geological media, groundwater–surface water interactions, and applied environmental geochemistry. His work places emphasis on field investigation, quantitative hydrogeological analysis, and sustainable management of groundwater resources.
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Chung-Mo Lee is an assistant professor in Department of Geological Sciences at Pusan National University. His research interests include hydrogeology, groundwater-surface water interaction, and geostatistic models in earth sciences.
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Heejung Kim is a professor (Full, Since 2025) at Kangwon National University in Korea. She received her Ph.D. in 2015 from the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Seoul National University. She was awarded the Young Geologist Award by the Geological Society of Korea in 2018, and the Geological Society of Korea Contribution Award in 2025. Her major research interests include groundwater-stream water interaction, karst hydrology, and microbial diversity in groundwater.
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Sang Hyun Kim is a senior researcher in the Center for Water Cycle Research at Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST). His research focuses on risk-based remediation of soil and groundwater, with particular emphasis on contaminant behavior in the vadose zone. He is also interested in carbon dioxide removal (CDR) using soil and groundwater systems.
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Yongju Choi is a professor in the Department of Civil, Urban and Environmental Engineering at Seoul National University, South Korea. His research spans a broad spectrum of environmental engineering and science, including sediment management, water treatment, and wastewater valorization. His current work focuses on in situ sequestration of sediment contaminants through sorbent amendments, adsorption-based treatment of PFAS-contaminated water, and the recovery of nitrogen from wastewater into high-quality ammonia products.
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Young-Soo Han is a professor in the Department of Environmental Engineering at Chungnam National University, South Korea. Her research covers a broad range of soil and groundwater environmental science and engineering, with particular emphasis on the dynamics of toxic heavy metals in soil and groundwater systems, advanced spectroscopic investigation using laboratory XAS and XES, and the monitoring and mitigation of greenhouse gases. Her current work focuses on understanding contaminant behavior in subsurface environments and developing effective strategies for environmental monitoring and remediation.
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Eun Jung Kim is a professor at the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Major in Environmental Engineering), Mokpo National University, South Korea. Her research focuses on soil restoration and waste valorization for environmental applications.
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