Mr. Junseop Shin | Neuroscience | Research Excellence Award

School of Psychology, Korea University | South Korea

Junseop Shin is an undergraduate researcher in psychology and neuroscience at Korea University, where he is pursuing a B.S. in Psychology & Neuroscience and has been admitted to an integrated Bachelor’s–Master’s program in Social Neuroscience beginning in 2025. His academic training focuses on the neural mechanisms underlying social cognition, affect, and decision-making. He currently serves as a Research Assistant in the Social Decision Neuroscience Lab at Korea University, where he supports experimental design, data preprocessing, and neuroimaging analyses, applying fMRI methods using SPM and MATLAB to investigate social and cognitive processes. In parallel, he works as a Research Assistant in the Clinical Affective Neuroscience Lab at Yonsei University, contributing to a national research project examining shared and distinct pathophysiological mechanisms of depression and anxiety through machine-learning approaches. His responsibilities include drafting IRB protocols, preparing research proposals, and managing participant screening and behavioral data collection for studies on affective disorders and misophonia. Junseop has authored a peer-reviewed publication in NeuroImage and has presented his work at national and international conferences, including the Korean Society of Human Brain Mapping and the American Psychological Association. His research interests lie in social and affective neuroscience, self-related processing, psychiatric neurobiology, and computational approaches to mental health. Through interdisciplinary training and collaborative research, he aims to advance the understanding of brain-based mechanisms underlying social behavior and psychopathology.

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