 He is the founder and former director of the Biological Research Information Center, a member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology, and has served on the editorial board in "Molecular Plant" since 2013.Nam did his undergraduate studies in chemistry at Seoul National University and received his Ph.D. degree in the same field from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States, in 1985.From 1986 to 1988, he worked as a research fellow in the Department of Genetics of Harvard Medical School.