Rate My Professor Hyungsik Lim

Hyungsik Lim is Professor of Optometry at the Indiana University School of Optometry in Bloomington, having joined in 2024. He received a B.Eng. in Material Science and Engineering from Seoul National University in 1998, an M.S. in Physics from Ohio State University in 2000, and a Ph.D. in Applied and Engineering Physics from Cornell University in 2005. Lim completed postdoctoral training as a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School's Wellman Center for Photomedicine in the laboratory of Dr. Johannes F. de Boer from 2004 to 2006, followed by a Postdoctoral Research Associate position at Cornell University's School of Applied and Engineering Physics in the laboratory of Dr. Watt W. Webb from 2006 to 2009.

Prior to Indiana University, Lim served on the faculty at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, Department of Physics and Astronomy, progressing from Assistant Professor in 2009 to Associate Professor in 2016 and Professor in 2021. His research examines neurodegenerative disorders from a biophysical perspective, utilizing multiphoton microscopy for intravital imaging of the mouse brain and retina, including studies on glaucoma, myelination, and transcriptional dynamics. Key publications include "Visualization of dynamics of single endogenous mRNA labeled in live mouse" in Science (2014), "Label-free imaging of Schwann cell myelination by third harmonic generation microscopy" in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2014), "Harmonic Generation Microscopy 2.0: New Tricks Empowering Intravital Imaging for Neuroscience" in Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences (2019), and "Differential protection by nicotinamide in a mouse model of glaucoma" in PLOS ONE (2024). Lim is affiliated with the Program in Neuroscience at Indiana University, where he is accepting new graduate students, and leads the Lim Lab investigating RNA granule dynamics and metabolic interventions in ocular diseases.