
Associate Professor Jee Hyun Kim is the Head of Developmental Psychobiology Laboratory. Her laboratory studies the biology of forgetting and how forgetting processes are unique in anxiety and addiction, especially in childhood and adolescence. She has won numerous national and international awards for her ground-breaking work.
Jee completed her undergraduate degree at the University of New South Wales graduating with the prestigious University Medal in Psychology, followed by a PhD from the University of New South Wales. After obtaining her PhD, Jee worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the UNSW, and then the University of Michigan before her appointment at the Florey.
Jee is an active science communicator and has given public lectures at TEDx Melbourne, Australian Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Victorian Science Week, Lyceum club, and City of Melbourne as well as interviews for radio and television.
Jee is a vocal advocate for Women in Science, and has served on the committee for the Florey Committee for Equality is Science. She was acknowledged for her role as a proponent for women in science in Kate White’s book, 'Building effective career paths for women in science research: a case study of an Australian science research institute'. Kim has completed the National Australian Bank “Realise” female leadership program.
Awards and achievements
Highlights
2017 Biological Psychiatry Australia Aubrey Lewis Award
2016 The International College of Neuropsychopharmacology (CINP) Rafaelsen Young Investigator Award
2014 Victorian Young Tall Poppy Scientist Award
2013 International Society for Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP) Kucharski Young Investigator Award
2012 Australian Psychological Society (APS) Early Career Research Award
2012 D. G. Marquis Award for Best paper published in Behavioral Neuroscience (American Psychological Association)
2010 UNSW U-Committee Award for Research Excellence in Science
2009 ISDP Dissertation Award
2008 APS Prize for Excellence in PhD thesis in Psychology
2008 ISDP John Wiley Best Poster Award, inaugural
2007 ISDP Sandra G. Wiener Student Investigator Award
2004 APS Prize for the best performance in Psychology Honours
2004 University Medal in Psychology
Others
2015 The Florey Best Review Paper Award
2014 Japanese Neuroscience Society (JNS) Travel Grant ; CASS Foundation Travel Grant ; Federation of European Neurosciences Societies (FENS) Travel Grant
2013 International Society for Neurochemistry Young Investigator Award ; Ian Potter Foundation Travel Grant
2012 Asia-Pacific Society for Neurochemistry Young Investigator Award ; Cold Spring Harbour Laboratories Workshop Travel Support ; International Brain Research Organisation Travel Grant ; FENS Travel Grant ; Scientifix Award ; Dyason Fellowship ; CASS Foundation Travel Grant
2011 National Institute of Health (NIH) Travel Award ; Miller Travel Fellowship
Pre-2011 :; UNSW Postgraduate Travel Scholarship ; NIH Travel Award ; Australian Postgraduate Award ; NIH Travel Award ; Joseph P. Forgas Prize for best performance in Social Psychology
Research Papers
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A dissociation between renewal and contextual fear conditioning in juvenile ratsDevelopmental Psychobiology
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Aripiprazole facilitates extinction of conditioned fear in adolescent ratsFrontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Developmental perspectives on methamphetamine abuse: Exploring adolescent vulnerabilities on brain and behaviorProgress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry
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Juvenile female rats, but not male rats, show renewal, reinstatement, and spontaneous recovery following extinction of conditioned fearLearning & Memory
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Exercise alters mouse sperm small noncoding RNAs and induces a transgenerational modification of male offspring conditioned fear and anxietyTranslational Psychiatry
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Divergent prefrontal dopaminergic mechanisms mediate drug- and fear-associated cue extinction during adolescence versus adulthoodEuropean Neuropsychopharmacology
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Extinction of conditioned fear in adolescents and adults: A human fmri studyFrontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Neurocircuitry of fear extinction in adult and juvenile ratsBehavioural Brain Research
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Postnatal developmental trajectory of dopamine receptor 1 and 2 expression in cortical and striatal brain regionsJournal of Comparative Neurology
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Reducing Fear During Childhood to Prevent Anxiety Disorders Later: Insights From Developmental PsychobiologyPolicy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences
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