Joon Ma is a designer, educator, and co-founder of one-aftr. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Davidson College and a Master of Architecture from Princeton University, where he received the Suzanne Kolarik Underwood Prize for his thesis. His work has garnered international recognition, including a runner-up in Europan 15 Vienna, shortlisting for the Dubai World Expo Korean Pavilion, and exhibition at the Venice Biennale. He won the Seoul Maru Public Intervention 2023. His written work has been published in Rumor (Princeton), Paprika! (Yale), and Pool (UCLA). Before co-founding one-aftr, he worked at OMA/AMO Rotterdam. He has previously taught at Syracuse University and Virginia Tech University and currently serves as the TSK Visiting Critic at Seoul National University.