He is an Editorial Board member of Journal of Ecology and Environment and Journal of Plant Biology. He served as a secretary general for the Korean Society of Limnology from 2007 to 2008 and a financial manager for the Korean Society of Plant Biologists between 2008 and 2010. Currently, he is serving as a Public Relations committee chair of the Ecological Society of Korea. He holds an undergraduate degree in Botany, Masters in Biology and a PhD in Ecology.