Group Leader

Minah Seo, Ph. D

Associate Professor

Department of Physics

College of Natural Sciences

Sogang University

mseo at sogang.ac.kr

2025- | Associate Professor, Deptment of Physics, Sogang University (Since Sep. 2025)

2021-2025 | Adjunct Professor, KU-KIST, Korea University, South Korea

2013-2025 | Senior/Principal Research Scientist, KIST, South Korea

2010-2013 | Directors Postdoc Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

2010 | Ph. D Seoul National University, Korea (Physics)

2005 | M. S. Seoul National University, Korea (Physics)

2003 | B. S. Ewha Womans University, Korea (Physics)

2025 | World TOP 2% Scientists list, 2021-2024 (Stanford University and 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)

General Physics II (English) (2025-2)
일반물리학 실험 II (2025-2)
색채학개론 (2021-2025)
생체물질 분광학 (2021-2025)
광공학 기초 (2022)

2023-24 | Visiting scholar, Department of Physics, UC San Diego, USA

2017 | Visiting scholar, Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

2006, 2007 | Visiting student, The Optica Group, Delft University, The Netherlands

2004~2006 | Visiting student, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, South Korea

Center Director at Sensor System Research Center in KIST (2022~2025)
Editorial board member at Communications Physics in Nature publishing group (2018~2025)
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 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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