Professor Jee Hyun Kim, PhD

Professor Jee Hyun Kim is the Head of Molecular Psychiatry and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at Deakin University. She graduated with the University medal in Bachelor of Psychology and a PhD in Psychology from the University of New South Wales. Jee leads an innovative program of work elucidating the biological mechanisms underlying sex- and age-specific learning and memory relevant for anxiety, addiction, and mood disorders. Her ultimate research aim is therapy development based on discovery work through to clinical trials. Jee is currently leading the Trimetazidine in bipolar depression (TIDE) clinical trial. Jee has won numerous national and international awards for her ground-breaking work (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jee_Hyun_Kim). Jee has >100 publications, for which she is the corresponding author to >60. Jee is an active science communicator, with her TEDxMelbourne talk reaching >800,000 views (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_t9O5MgisM). Jee is a highly sought-after speaker who has given >10 plenary and keynote presentations in international and national conferences. Jee strongly believes in open science and collaborations to actively combat the replication crisis in science. For example, she has been leading mapping of dopamine receptors across development in male and female mice in partnership with the Human Brain Project funded by European Union (https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/about/project-structure/partnering-projects/dopamap/).