Emotion & empathy
How affective information shapes attention, choice, social connection, and care.
Affective neuroscience · Seoul
Mapping the emotional brain—from signals to social intelligence.
I investigate how emotion and empathy emerge across the brain, body, and our interactions with intelligent systems.
Emotion is both a biological signal and a social language.
§ 01 · About
An interdisciplinary view of how we feel, connect, and care.
My work brings together affective neuroscience, clinical research, engineering, and human–AI interaction. I use multimodal neuroimaging, psychophysiology, and non-invasive brain stimulation to study human emotion, empathy, and mood disorders.
Across these methods, one question stays central: how can individual biological signals help us understand—and build technologies that better support—social and emotional life?
- 2018—Now
- Research Professor
Korea University - 60+
- Peer-reviewed
publications - 1
- Current projects
as Principal Investigator - Seoul
- Republic
of Korea
§ 02 · Research
Four connected threads.
Studying affect across neural circuits, physiology, behaviour, and technology.
Neuroimaging & plasticity
Brain structure, connectivity, and change in empathy, mood, and clinical populations.
Neuromodulation & physiology
Vagal and electrical stimulation, autonomic regulation, EEG, and embodied signals.
Affective human–AI interaction
Emotion-aware robotics, digital mental health, and socially intelligent AI systems.
§ 03 · Projects
From fundamental questions to applied systems.
Seven investigator-led projects spanning affective neuroscience, clinical translation, and empathic AI.
§ 04 · Team
People behind the questions.
A small interdisciplinary team connecting neuroscience, computation, and human behaviour.
01
Principal Investigator
June Christoph Kang
Affective neuroscientist · Korea University
02
Researcher
Jae Chun Park
Researcher
03
Research Assistant
Lara Boldrini Rodriguez
Research Assistant
§ 05 · Selected publications
Recent work.
§ 06 · Selected conferences
Conference proceedings.
§ 07 · Experience
Academic path & teaching.
Selected teaching
Neuroimaging
Department of Data Science · Hanyang University
Social & Affective Neuroscience
Department of Psychology · Yonsei University
Social Brain & Human Behaviour
College of Medicine · Korea University
Academic appointments
Research Professor & PI
Brain & Cognitive Engineering · Korea University
Lecturer in Neuroimaging
Data Science · Hanyang University
Lecturer in Social & Affective Neuroscience
Psychology · Yonsei University
Education
Ph.D. Biomedical Science
Korea University
M.A. Clinical Psychology
Korea University
B.A. Psychology
Korea University
§ 08 · Contact
Let’s explore what emotion can tell us.
Research collaborations and interdisciplinary conversations are always welcome.
cnsla@korea.ac.kr ↗