Educations and Positions

2025.09 ~ Present  : Professor, Department of Mathematics Education, Seoul National University

2022.09 ~ 2025.08 : Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics Education, Seoul National University

2020.03 ~ 2022.08 : Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Kyonggi University

2020.03 ~ 2020.06 : Visiting Scholar, Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California

2019.04 ~ 2020.12 : Associate Member, Korea Institute for Advanced Study

2014.09 ~ 2015.12 : Associate Member, Korea Institute for Advanced Study 

2014.03 ~ 2020.02 : Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Kyonggi University

2013.03 ~ 2014.02 : Research fellow, Korea Institute for Advanced Study

2012.03 ~ 2013.02 : Research fellow, Department of Mathematics, Seoul National University

2005.03 ~ 2012.02 : Ph.D. in Mathematics, Pohang University of Science and Technology

2000.03 ~ 2005.03 : Bachelor in Mathematics ( and Computer Sciences), Pohang University of Science and Technology


Research Interests

Partial differential equations, Calculus of Variations,  Mathematical Physics , Mathematics Education


Grants

2020.03 ~ 2025.02 : Mid-Career Researcher Program, National Research Foundation

2020.03 ~ 2025.02 : Young Researcher Program, National Research Foundation

2017.06 ~ 2020.05 : Follow-up Research Program, National Research Foundation

2015.01 ~ 2016.12 : TJ Park Junior Faculty Fellowship, POSCO TJ Park Foundation

2014.05 ~ 2017.04 : Young Researcher Program, National Research Foundation

2014.06 ~ 2017.05 : Research Grant for New Faculty, Kyonggi University


Organization of Events

2017.02.13 ~ 2017.02.24: Lecture series on Topics in PDEs,  KIAS, Seoul, Korea 

2018.07.09 ~ 2018.07.09: (Special Session of AIMS conference), PDEs from mathematical physics and geometry, NTU, Taipei, Taiwan 

   Co-organization with Bongsuk Kwon 

2018.08.16 ~ 2018.08.18: Workshop on Topics in Variational Methods, Unipark, Jeju National University, Jeju

   Co-organization with Bongsuk Kwon 

2018.12.13 ~2018.12.15: The 3rd Meeting of Young Researchers in PDEs, KIAS, Seoul, Korea

  Co-organization with Minsuk Yang, Hantaek Bae, Moon-jin Kang, Sung-jin Oh, In-jee Jeong 

2019.05.31 ~ 2019.05.31: The 4th Su-In workshop, Kyonggi Univ., Suwon, Korea 

2024.04.08 ~ 2024.04.12: Frontiers in Analysis and Mathematical Physics, Hoam Faculty House, Seoul National Univ., Seoul, Korea 

 Co-organization with: Christian Hainzl, Younghun Hong , Chulkwang Kwak, Ji Oon Lee, Jinyeop Lee, Phan Thanh Nam