Hyeonmin is an experienced remote sensing scientist with a forestry sciences degree from the University of Göttingen and a degree in earth observation from the University of Würzburg, which is co-chaired by the German Aerospace Center (DLR). She has worked as a remote sensing scientist and geospatial developer in the areas of forest carbon modeling and deforestation monitoring with multispectral, Synthetic Aperture Radar, and LiDAR satellite data at WWF and the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW).