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Dr. Minah Seo
Dr. Minah Seo
Principal Research Scientist, Center Director (2013~)
Center Director (2022~)
Sensor System Research Center,
KIST
Affiliated Professor (2021~)
KU-KIST Graduate School of Converging Science & Technology
Korea University
mseo at kist.re.kr
minahseo at korea.ac.kr
EDUCATION
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
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
HONORS and AWARDS
HONORS and AWARDS
2025, World TOP 2% Scientists list, 2021-2024, Elsevier
2025 Academic award in the Optical Society of Korea (학술대상, 한국광학회)
2025 KIST Opening Anniversary Award (개원기념일 포상, 우수연구팀상)
2024 KIST Award of the Month for her outstanding achievement (이달의 키스트인상)
2023 Award from the Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy (산업부 장관상)
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
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Center Director at Sensor System Research Center in KIST (2022~2025)
Editorial board member at Communications Physics in Nature publishing group (since 2018)
Director of General Affairs, Optical Society of Korea (OSK) (since 2024)
Chair for THz and mid-IR generation and applications, APLS 2025 (Asia-Pacific Laser Symposium)
- 2025 (5/13~17, Jeju)Technical Program Committee for Korea-UK Terahertz Network Special Session, The Korean Physical Society 2024
Technical Program Committee at The Korean Sensors Society (KSS) 2024
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)
- 2025 (8/17~22, Espoo, Finland)
- 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)
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