Yunjeong Lee
Yunjeong Lee
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)
Field: Psychology & Life Science
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Nice to meet you. I'm a researcher transitioning from cognitive psychology to counseling and clinical psychology, driven by a strong desire to connect scientific insight with human care. With a background in Life Science and Psychology, I've explored how emotion and context influence language processing — including two years of research at GIST's Language, Cognition, & Brain Lab and a cross-cultural study on urban green spaces during my Korea–Germany Junior Research Fellowship at KIT.
Through these diverse experiences, I realized that what sustains my passion for research is seeing its real-world relevance — especially in helping individuals navigate emotional and psychological challenges. My goal is to integrate rigorous empirical methods with compassionate practice, with a particular focus on research related to LGBTQ+ identity and attachment patterns. I believe that meaningful change arises when evidence-based knowledge is applied in ways that honor the complexity of human experience. If you'd like to connect or learn more about my work, feel free to reach out!
Education
March 2026 - Present
- M.A. student in Counseling Psychology, Department of Education (College of Education)
- Advisor: Prof. Yun-Jeong Shin
March 2020 - August 2024
- B.A. in Life Science (Advisor: Prof. Youngsoo Jun)
- Minor in Psychology
- TGPA 3.76/4.50 (Psychology 4.36/4.50)
September 2022 - December 2022
- Student Exchange Program
- GPA 4.20/4.50
July 2022 - August 2022
- 2022 Summer Session Study Abroad Program
- GPA 4.00/4.00
Research Experience
March 2026 - Present
M.A. Student / Graduate Researcher (Supervised by Prof. Yun-Jeong Shin), Department of Education
- Researching evidence-based psychological counseling and interventions
- Focus areas include career counseling and multicultural / social-justice advocacy counseling
August 2024 - February 2025
Intern, Korea–Germany Junior Research Fellowship Program (Supervised by Prof. Somidh Saha)
- Project: Sylvanus — Increasing resilience and reducing trade-offs during forest transformations
- Conducted research on nature-based solutions (NbS) to enhance social-ecological resilience by comparing public perceptions of urban green spaces in Germany and South Korea
July 2021 - August 2022, March 2023 - August 2024
Undergraduate Research Intern (Supervised by Prof. Wonil Choi)
- Studied human emotional and cognitive processing in language-related tasks
- Emotional processing during natural reading; auditory stimulus processing differences between English L1 and L2 speakers
- Lexical quality assessment of Korean–English L2 speakers; recognition of ambiguous content with or without contextual headings
September 2022 - December 2022
Undergraduate Research Intern (Supervised by Prof. Kichun Nam)
- Reviewed phonological and orthographic neighborhood effects in Korean word recognition
Publications
Name in bold denotes my authorship.
Jaewon Son, Yunjeong Lee, Caroline Kramer, Somidh Saha
Basic and Applied Ecology, 2025
Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 2025
Hyunah Baek, Yunjeong Lee, Wonil Choi
Memory & Cognition, 2023
Awards & Honors
November 2023
- National contest on creative and practical research related to games, society, economy, and culture
- First author of "How Visual and Auditory Effects Affect User Experience in Visual Novel-Style Games: an Eye-Tracking Study from the 'Blue Archive'" — served as team leader, designed the experiment, and supervised the full manuscript development
August 2024 - March 2025
- Awarded by the Max Planck POSTECH/Korea Research Initiative (MPK)
March 2020 - August 2024
- Scholarship awarded to students studying at GIST
March 2022 - December 2023
- Scholarship awarded for outstanding academic performance
Media Coverage
News1, 2023
Newsworker, 2023