告诉我们bit about your career as a scientist and Professor and what a typical day looks like for you. What is the most rewarding part of your role?

作为一名科学家和教授，我的典型日子专注于教年轻一代的工程专业学生，并扩大自己的研究。我在生物工程领域教授本科和研究生，并指导我的实验室的学生，旨在帮助他们提高研究和方法论技能以及对生物工程的一般理解。

同时，我与不同的研究人员和工业领导者进行沟通，以进行创新和协作研究，并为癌症患者的利益开拓新的技术进步。我希望有一天能够帮助这些人与这种疾病的战斗。

The most satisfactory aspect of my role is the notion that my research and teaching will one day aid the future generation of engineers, fulfil their potential and dreams in this field and ultimately bring societal progress.

What is it like being a woman in your field? Have you ever had any difficulties in your career due to your gender?

我强烈建议年轻的女工程师雄心勃勃，并积极寻求可以支持其职业发展并充分掌握所有可用一切的机会。

在韩国，在任何工程领域中成为工程师可能很难成为一名女性。实际上，大多数学科的人数远远超过了男人。尽管随着时间的流逝，随着时间的流逝，性歧视正在逐渐减少，随着人们对社会权利和性别平等的认识，我面临的困难存在各种困难。

Following your dreams as a woman engineer and mother can be difficult, as you are expected to take care of your children while working. This is particularly challenging in Korea, where social support is lacking. In my case, there was no other engineer in my family, so I had to plan everything by myself and the absence of social support made it very difficult to develop my career. However, I expect a better outcome for younger generations of women engineers as there is a growing number of foundations, communities, and social structures coming into place with an aim to support young women engineers to follow their dreams.

I always admired the well-established network of male engineers, which easily enabled collaborative research. Therefore, I strongly suggest that young women engineers are more ambitious and actively seek out opportunities that can support their career development and fully grasp everything that is available to them.

You’ve had an international career and you are currently affiliated with institutions in the US, China and South Korea. What is your experience working for these different regions?

Regarding my international career and my affiliation to USA, China, and South Korea as a researcher, there are substantial differences in research methodology and skill level among these countries. USA is still the forerunner of pioneering research and possesses the largest number of global leaders within different academic disciplines.

The research environment in China is rapidly evolving and is becoming globally recognizable with the quality of research improving exponentially over the last two decades. Strong government support for research expansion and a large pool of engineers will provide strong foundation for China to become a leading figure in the future.

Lastly, Korea does not possess a similar level of resources as the US or China to perform or produce similar quantity of research. However, the Korean government is strongly backing their bioengineering industry and globally recognizable industry leaders have started to take more active involvement in the field. They have allocated their resource wisely and many of the researchers and engineers still perform outstanding research and development with a continuous trend of growth and improvement.

您对正在考虑从事科学和工程职业的年轻女性的建议是什么？

随着工程领域的持续增长以及对性别不平等的社会意识的提高，我坚信年轻女工程师的未来将会更美好。有许多全球公认的女工程师在学术界或行业中积极工作，这些领导者可以为年轻女工程师提供一个很好的榜样。

我在家庭机构和国外的各种支持计划中都参与了各种支持计划，希望能帮助年轻女工程师的职业发展。各种支持和指导的各种支持和机会的增长趋势可用于年轻一代，他们应该利用这些资源在工程领域中更好地做好准备。

Finally, I would like to once again emphasize for the future woman engineers to be ambitious, fully utilize any resources that are available to them, and to follow their dream as their dreams can come true with hard work.

关于Chae-Ok教授Yun教授

Chae-Ok Yun is currently Professor of Bioengineering at Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea. She is also Adjunct Professor of Pharmaceuticals and Pharmaceutical Chemistry at University of Utah, United States, Affiliate Professor of Medicine at University of Washington, United States, Guest Professor of Sichuan University, China, and Adjunct Professor of Genomics at Yonsei University, Korea.

她曾担任Molecular Therapy（2010-）的副编辑，BMC Cancer（2010-）和癌症基因治疗（2013-），编辑委员会对照释放杂志（2010-），基因治疗和调节的编辑委员会（2013-）（2013-）（2010-），《国际癌症研究与诊断杂志》（2013-），再生疗法（2016-）和高级药物提供评论（2016-），溶血病毒疗法的副编辑（2017-），以及编辑顾问BMC生物医学工程。她还是韩国国家工程学院的成员。