Jungwook Shin, Ph.D.

Jungwook Shin earned both a B.S. in physics and a Ph.D. in high-energy physics from Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea. After receiving his Ph.D. in 2010, he came to the U.S. for postdoctoral research at the University of California, San Francisco, where he co-developed a Monte Carlo simulation software to model proton radiotherapy systems. Prior to joining the Radiation Epidemiology Branch (REB), Dr. Shin worked as an instructor for Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, where he performed research in proton therapy. In August 2023, he joined REB as a staff scientist. Dr. Shin received the Roberts Best Paper prize from the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM) in 2022.

Research Interests

Dr. Shin’s research interests and activities include advancing radiation transport simulations techniques and modeling interactions between radiation and human tissues for patient outcomes and induced toxicities. In REB, he supports the Pediatric Proton and Photon Therapy  Comparison Cohort and other studies including the development of patient-specific dosimetry for radioactive iodine therapy and radiation dose exposure to circulating blood cells.