Associate Professor
Department of Physics
College of Natural Sciences
Sogang University
mseo at sogang.ac.kr
2025.09- | Associate Professor, Deptment of Physics, Sogang University, South Korea
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, South Korea (Physics)
2005 | M. S. Seoul National University, South Korea (Physics)
2003 | B. S. Ewha Womans University, South Korea (Physics)
2025 | National R&D Excellence Top 100 Awarded (2025 국가연구개발 우수성과 100선 선정)
2025 | World TOP 2% Scientists list, 2021-2025 (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
Director of General Affairs, Optical Society of Korea (OSK) (since 2024)
Center Director at Sensor System Research Center in KIST (2022~2025)
Editorial board member at Communications Physics in Nature publishing group (2018~2025)
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)
2025-11 한국레이저가공학회 추계학술대회 특별강연
2025-02 한국광학회 동계학술 대회 기조강연
2024-08 양자센서 ITRC 워크샵 초청강연
2024-05 세계 빛의 날 초청강연
2024-07 나노코리아 2024 퍼블릭세션
2024-04 삼성 화재
2023-12 삼성 전자
2023-11 서강대학교 라이프 아카데미
2023-10 서울대학교 최고위과정
2023-05 삼성 전자
2023-04 서울대학교 최고위과정
2022-12 서강대학교 라이프 아카데미
2022-11 KOITA 기술경영부서장 교육
2022-11 고려대학교 의학도서관 북클럽
2022-11 서울대학교 최고위과정
2022-10 고려대 라이프 아카데미
2022-09 한국조폐공사
2022-08 강남역삼도서관
2022-08 삼성인재개발원
2022-06 서울대학교 최고위과정
2022-05 삼성전자 SBC 방송
2022-04 대한내분비학회
2022-04 삼성물산 패션
2022-03 최인아책방 북클럽
2022-03 과학동아
2021-12 과학창의재단 사다리프로젝트
2021-12 울산국제아트페어
2021-12 KIST 창의포럼
2021-12 삼성바이오로직스
2021-11 서강대 라이프 아카데미
2021-10 세계과학문화포럼
2021-08 동원고등학교
2020-11 고려대 라이프 아카데미
2020-07 삼성인재개발원 고위경영자과정
2020-05 고려대학교 KU-KIST 융합세미나