카이스트 인문사회과학부 부교수 서울대학교 지리학과 졸업, 미국 오하이오주립대학 지리학 박사 논저: “China meets Jeju Island: provincializing geopolitical economy in East Asia”, “Geopolitical economy and the production of territory: The case of US–China geopolitical-economic competition in Asia”, “A geo-economic object or an object of geo-political absorption? Competing visions of North Korea in South Korean politics”, “China’s new territorial strategies towards North Korea: security, development, and inter-scalar politics”, “The production of territory in North Korea: ‘Security first, economy next’” 등