PI
Dr. Minah Seo
2013~present,
Principal Research Scientist
Center Director,
Sensor System Research Center
Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST)
2021~present,
Affiliated Professor,
KU-KIST Graduate School of Converging Science & Technology
Korea University
mseo at kist.re.kr
minahseo at korea.ac.kr
m2seo at ucsd. edu
EDUCATION
2010 Ph. D Seoul National University, Korea (Physics)
2005 M. S. Seoul National University, Korea (Physics)
2003 B. S. Ewha Womans University, Korea (Physics)
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2023-24 Visiting scholar, Department of Physics, UC San Diego, USA
2017 Visiting scholar, Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
2010~2013 Directors Postdoc Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
2006, 2007 Visiting scholar, The Optica Group, Delft University, The Netherlands
2004~2006 Visiting student, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
AWARDS
2023 Nano Korea Award 2023, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy
2017 KIST Young Fellow, Korea Institute of Science and Technology
2017 Unsung Heroine, Korea Institute of Science and Technology
2011 Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory
2010 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award (College of Natural Science, Seoul National University)
2010 Graduate Student Research Award, first place (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Editorial board member at Communications Physics in Nature publishing group (since 2018)
General Secretary, Optical Society of Korea (OSK) (since 2024)
Technical Program Committee at The Korean Sensors Society (KSS) (since 2022)
Topical Editor at Optics Letters in OSA (2021~2022)
Technical Program Committee at ALTA (Advanced Lasers and Their Applications)
- 2024 (5/1~4, Jeju)
- 2023 (5/2~4, Jeju)
- 2022 (5/2~4, Jeju)Technical Program Committee at AsiaNANO 2022 (2022 Asian Conference on Nanoscience & Nanotechnology)
- 2022 (11/9~11, BEXCO, Busan)Program Sub-Committee for Infrared and Terahertz Technologies and Applications, CLEO-Pacific Rim (Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics - Pacific Rim)
- 2024 (8/5~9, Songdo, Korea)Co-chair for Nanophotonics, CLEO-Pacific Rim (Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics - Pacific Rim)
- 2022 (7/31~8/5, Sapporo, Japan)
Technical Program Committee at IRMMW-THz (The International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves)
- 2024 (9/1~6, Perth, Australia)
- 2023 (9/17~22, Montreal, Canada)
- 2022 (9/4~9, Delft, Netherlands)
- 2021 (8/29~9/3, Chengdu, China (virtual))
- 2020 (11/8~13, Buffalo, NY, USA (virtual))
- 2019 (9/1~6, Paris, France)
Technical Program Committee at CLEO (Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics - OSA)
- 2021 (5/9~5/14, San Jose, California, USA)
- 2020 (5/10~5/15, San Jose, California, USA (virtual))
- 2019 (5/5~5/10, San Jose, California, USA)
Technical Program Committee at APOS (Asia Pacific Optical Sensors)
- 2015 (5/20~5/22, Jeju, Korea)
Technical Program Committee at COOC (Conference on Optoelectronics & Optical Communications)
- 2015 (6/3∼6/5, Pusan, Korea)