Group Members
Gil Young Cho (PI)
Education
B.A. in Physics, KAIST (2009) [Valedictorian, GPA 4.27/4.30 highest in a class of graduating students.]
PhD in Physics, University of California, Berkeley (2013)
Employments & Positions
ICMT Postdoctoral Fellow, Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2013 - 2015)
Postdoctoral Researcher (Alternative Military Duty), KIAS/KAIST (2015 - 2018)
Assistant Professor, POSTECH (2018 - 2022)
Associate Professor, POSTECH (2022 - Present)
Currently I also hold the following positions:
Visiting Fellow, Perimeter institute for theoretical physics, Canada (2017 - Present)
Associate Member, KIAS, Korea (2018 - Present)
Senior Advisory Group Member, APCTP, Korea (2022 - Present)
Young Member, Korean Academy of Science and Technology, Korea (Y-KAST, 2024 - Present)
양자소재 분과 기술 자문위원, 소재 국가기술전략센터 (2024 - Present)
Selected Honors, Prizes and Awards
Presidential Award ("대통령 상"), President of South Korea, Korea (2009)
KITP Graduate Fellowship, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, US (2011)
Jackson C. Koo Award, UC Berkeley, US (2013)
ICMT Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US (2013 - 2015)
Best Lecturer Award ("우수 강의상"), Physics Department, POSTECH (2019)
Rising Physicist Award ("신진 물리학자 상"), Korean Physical Society, Korea (2021)
This month's Science, Technology, and Researcher Award ("이달의 과학기술인 상"), National Research Foundation & Ministry of Science and ICT, Korea (2022)
Young Member, Elected, Korean Academy of Science and Technology ("차세대한국과학기술한림원"), Korea (2023)
Office: 3-415
Minyoung You (Postdoc, Shared with Prof. HC Kim)
PhD in Physics, CALTECH (2020)
Postdoc Researcher, APCTP (2020 - 2022)Office: 3-510
Wonjun Lee (Graduate Researcher, PhD candidate)
B.A. in Physics, POSTECH (2020)
Visiting Graduate Student, MIT (2023)Honors, Fellowships/Awards, and Papers
"졸업 연구 우수상" for excellence in his graduation research for his B.A in Physics (2019)
"관정 이종환 장학금" for his graduate study (2020)
"설립 이사장 상" for his highest GPA among the graduates (2020)
"삼성 휴먼 테크 논문 대상" 금상 (2021)
"생애 첫 논문상" (2021)
"우수 논문상" Best Paper Award for his contribution to the recent PRL paper (2021)
"민병일 고체이론 논문 상" BI Min Best Condensed Matter Theory Paper Award for his recent PRL paper (2021)
"포스테키안 펠로우십 (POSTECHIAN Fellowship)" for his excellence in research (2021)
"소선 나눔 기금" for excellence in research (2022)
"우수 논문상" Best Paper Award for his contribution to the recent Nature paper (2023)
"민병일 고체이론 논문 상" BI Min Best Condensed Matter Theory Paper Award for his Nature paper (2023)
"우수 논문상" Best Paper Award for his congribution to the recent PRX paper (2024)
"대통령 장학금" for his PhD studies (2024)Office: 3-509
Donghae Seo (Graduate Researcher, PhD candidate)
B.A. in Physics, POSTECH (2021)
Honors, Fellowships/Awards, and Papers
"융합 인재 Fellowship" for his graduate study (2021) [Co-adviser: Prof. Hee-Cheol Kim]
"우수발표상" for his excellence in presentation at KPS meeting (2023)
"생애 첫 논문상" for his recent publication in PRB (2024)Office: 3-510
Cheong-Eung Ahn (Graduate Researcher)
B.A. in Physics, GIST (2021)
Honors, Fellowships/Awards, and Papers
"최우등졸업상" for his higest GPA among the graduates (GIST, 2021)Office: 3-509
Seonpyo Kim (Graduate Researcher)
B.A. in Physics, POSTECH (2021)
Honors, Fellowships/Awards, and Papers
"관정 이종환 장학금" for his graduate study (2022)Office: 3-509
Chanbeen Lee (Graduate Researcher)
B.A. in Physics, POSTECH (2022)
Honors, Fellowships/Awards, and Papers
"POSTECHIAN Fellowship (포스테키안 펠로우쉽)" for his graduate study (2023)Office: 3-509
Seyoung Jin (Graduate Researcher)
B.A. in Physics, POSTECH (2022)
Honors, Fellowships/Awards, and Papers
"관정 이종환 장학금" for her graduate study (2023)
"삼성 휴먼 테크 논문 대상" 금상 (2024)Office: 3-509
Minjae Yu (Graduate Researcher)
B.A. in Physics, POSTECH (2023)
Office: 3-509
Takil Yannet Son (Graduate Researcher)
B.A. in Physics, POSTECH (2024)
Office: 3-509
Dongju Hwang (Graduate Researcher)
B.A. in Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics, POSTECH (2024)
Office: Department of Physics, KAIST
Alumni
Dr. Byungmin Kang (Postdoc at KIAS, 2018-2022): He was a postdoc at Prof. Kwon Park's group at KIAS but we have closely collaborated for several years while he was at KIAS. The collaborations with him were important in our group's early research, which has been mainly centered around the many-body invariants of topological insulators. He is very friendly and approachable. I have very much enjoyed working with him. He is now at MIT.
Dr. Sangjin Lee (Postdoc, 2019 - 2023): He was a postdoc in my group for roughly 3.5 years (hired through APCTP and IBS CALDES) and has theoretically studied possible experimental schemes for detecting topological states. He has a personable character, easy to collborate with, and also is very diligent, strong. I appreciate him very much for his help in stabilizing our group at the very early days. He is now at KIST.
Mr. Jongjun Lee (Graduate Student, 2019 - 2021): He was a graudate student in my group and studied the low-energy phenomena of two-dimensional correlated CDW states (which we called "conducting network materials"), which I liked a lot. He has published two PRLs during the relatively short period of his time in my group. He was a diligent, polite student. He is now in Prof. Hyun-Woo Lee's group at POSTECH, studying the spintronics.