Minchul Yum is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Mannheim. His main research interests lie in macroeconomics and family economics, especially using quantitative approaches with heterogeneous-agent models.

He received his Ph.D. (2015) and M.A. (2011) in Economics at The Ohio State University (Columbus, USA) after he received his M.A. (2010) and B.A. (2007) in Economics at Sogang University (Seoul, Korea).