Changyong Song

Ph. D. 2001 

Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, Iowa State University (Ames, IA, USA)

Research Interest:

• Ultrafast single-shot diffraction imaging using femtosecond laser pulses. 

• Exploring nonequilibrium states of matters via diffraction and imaging

• Introducing new imaging modalities

Employments:     

• 2022.03 ~ present

        Professor, Department of Physics, POSTECH

• 2015.03 ~ 2022.02

        Associate Professor, Department of Physics, POSTECH

• 2013.03 ~ 2015.02

        RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Japan

        Team Leader, XFEL (SACLA) Imaging Development Team

• 2008.03 ~ 2013.02

        RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Japan 

        Initiative Unit Leader, SONG Initiative Research Unit

• 2004.12 ~ 2008.02

       Postdoctoral Researcher, UCLA, Physics

• 2001.04 ~ 2004.11

        Postdoctoral Researcher, POSTECH, Physics

Professional services & recognition

• Director, Center for Ultrafast Science on Quantum Matter (CUQ), Max Planck Korea/POSTECH Initiative (since 2022.06) 

• Associate director, POSTECH Photon Science Center, POSTECH (since 2019.09)

• "Mu-Un-Jae" endowed chair professor, POSTECH (2020.06~ 2022.05)

Selected publications

1. “Inducing thermodynamically blocked atomic ordering via strongly driven nonequilibrium kinetic”, C. Jung, Y. Ihm, D.-H. Cho, H. Lee, D. Nam, S.-S. Kim, I.-T. Eom, J. Park, C. Kim, Y. Kim, J. Fan, N. Ji, J. R. Morris, S. Owada, K. Tono, J-H Shim, H. Jiang, M. Yabashi, T. Ishikawa, D.-Y. Noh, and C. Song*, Science  Advances 7:eabj8552 (2021).

2. "Direct observation of picosecond melting and disintegration of metallic nanoparticles", Y. Ihm, D. Cho, D. Sung, D. Nam, T. Sato, C. Jung, S-S. Kim, J. Park, S-N. Kim, M. Gallagher-Jones, Y. Kim, R. Xu, S. Owada, J. H. Shim, K.Tono, M. Yabashi, T. Ishikawa, J. Miao, D.-Y. Noh, and Changyong Song*, Nature Communications 10:2411 (2019).