Hyeju Jeon

B.S. Chemistry, KAIST, 2021

Hyeju was born in Miryang, South Korea. She attended Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) for her undergraduate, where she fell in love with organic synthesis. Hyeju explored lots of research groups to sate her desire toward organic chemistry during her undergrad. She majorly worked in Prof. Hee-Yoon Lee’s lab, where she finished asymmetric total synthesis of Rhodonoids A, C, D, and G with rationale on their natural occurrences as partial racemic mixtures. After graduating in 2020, she worked a year more in Prof. Lee’s group to finish her work on Rhodonoids. In 2021, Hyeju moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to study more about transition metal catalyzed reactions in the White group.

 

Fun Facts

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• Hyeju is a huge fan of Harry Potter since she was 8, and knows every magic spell in it.

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• For more than 20 years, Hyeju thought she loves snow. But after spending the first winter in Illinois with lots of snow, she realized she does not like it that much.

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• Hyeju loves small animals (except cockroaches and insects) and is really good at finding them even though they are hiding in thick bushes.