| 1989 | B.S., Seoul National University (Chemistry) |
| 1985 | Ph. D., University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, USA (Biochemistry) |
| 1986 ~ 1988 | Post-doc Research Fellow, Harvard University USA |
| 1988 ~ Present | Professor, Dept. of Life Science, POSTEC hi |
| 2002 ~ Present | Member, Natural Sciences, Korean Academy of Science arid Technology |
He has opened a new paradigm in the field of plant biology through his research achievements the control of flowering time and plant development through light signal, molecular genetics of plant senescence and death regulation, and identification of plant development mechanism through degradation of regulatory protein. In particular, after 10 years of effort in finding out the mechanism of plant aging, he finally identified the regulatory network that decides the lifespan of leaves.
Professor Nam's these research achievements were all published in the three major international science puma's; Cell, Science and Nature. The papers posted in the three journals have been quoted for over 300 times and the 70 papers published in SCI journal have also been quoted for over 2,000 times as of today.
He was the first to introduce researches in aging mechanism of plants and opened a new chapter in the molecular genetic analysis of plant aging. These results were published in the Annual Review of Plant Biology and other three invited reviews. After identifying the mutation that delays aging, he has recently proved that the network formed based on the interaction among three aging-related genes (ORE I. EIN2, miR164) are important in regulating plant aging. By publishing 14 papers in ID years, he has become an unparalleled scholar in this field. Professor Nam has also separated the GI gene that plays an important role in controlling the flowering time of plants and identified that this gene affects the biological clock of plants.
He has found a genetic clue for the mechanism between the changes in the amount of daylight in accordance with the change of seasons and the biological clock, thus publishing the result in the Science magazine. He also made an achievement in identifying that while animals use their pupils to control light, the amount of light recognized by plants is decided by the biochemical control of phosphoric acidification of photoreceptor.
As such, professor Nam has played a critical role in raising Korea's position in the field of plant biology by conducting creative researches in the field and continuously publishing papers in internationally renowned science journals. It is therefore, expected that he will keep expanding and advancing his research achievements, thus producing distinguished achievements in this field.
