Jeesun Kim is a research Professor at The MARCS Institue for Brain, Behaviour, and Development at Western Sydney University. She conducts research on human communication, focusing on speech and reading. She uses methods from psychology, linguistics, speech engineering, and neuroscience to investigate both perception and production and its neurological underpinning. She employs a ‘whole of life’ approach that tracks how sensory, perceptual and cognitive skills change across the life-span.
Interests
- Multimodal communication
- Expressive Speech/gesture
- Cognitive changes in Ageing
Education
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PhD, 1998
UNSW
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Post-Doctoral Fellow, 1999
Yeugnam University (Korea)
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Post-doctoral Fellow (IREX), 2000
The University of Melbourne
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Post‐doctoral Fellow (National Academy of Education - USA), 2001
The University of Melbourne
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Post‐doctoral Fellow (APD), 2002
The University of Melbourne
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QEII Research Fellow, 2006
The University of Melbourne/Western Sydney University