1. About me

[News] I moved from Sookmyung Women's University to Sogang University on March 1st, 2020.

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Sang Mo Yang, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Physics, Sogang University, Korea

*E-mail: smyang(at)sogang.ac.kr (or ysangmo(at)gmail.com)

*Education and Professional Experience

- Mar. 2020 ~ present Assistant Professor, Sogang University

- Sep. 2016 ~ Feb. 2020 Assistant Professor, Sookmyung Women's University

- Oct. 2015 ~ Aug. 2016 Postdoctoral Fellow

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), USA

- Aug. 2013 ~ Sep. 2015 Joint Postdoctoral Fellow (Visiting Scholar)

CNMS, ORNL, USA

(jointly funded by ORNL and

Institute for Basic Sciences (IBS), Seoul National University (SNU))

- Sep. 2012 ~ Sep. 2015 Postdoctoral Fellow

Center for Correlated Electron Systems (CCES), IBS

& Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, SNU, Korea

(I moved into the U.S. on Aug. 2013.)

- Sep. 2006 ~ Aug. 2012 Ph.D. in Physics. (GPA: 4.11/4.3)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, SNU, Korea.

Experimental condensed matter physics (Supervisor: Prof. Tae Won Noh).

The Graduate Student Research Award "First Place" (Aug. 2012).

- Mar. 2000 ~ Aug. 2006 B.S. in Physics. (GPA: 3.94/4.3)

Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, SNU, Korea.

Graduation with honors (Summa cum laude) (Aug. 2006).

Feb. 2003 - Jun. 2005 in the military service.

* Research Interests

- Ionic conduction and associated electrochemical reactions in solid electrolytes, including superionic conductors and SOFCs.

- Domain switching dynamics in ferroelectric thin films (Pb(Zr,Ti)O3, BiFeO3, etc)

- Flux-closure domains in ferroelectric thin films and nanostructures

- Ferroelectric and multiferroic tunnel junctions

- Nonlinear dynamics of elastic interfaces: creep, depinning, and flow motions

* Awards and Honors

- Ceramographic Competition Award "First Place", Scanning Probe Microscopy Category (Nov. 1014) [from The American Ceramic Society]

- Graduation with honors (The Graduate Student Research Award “First Place”) (Aug. 29, 2012)

[from Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University]

- The Excellent Presentation Award (Poster) at the 9th Korea-Japan Conference on Ferroelectrics (Aug. 7-10, 2012, Ulsan, Korea).

- Best oral presentation award at the Korean Physical Society Fall Meeting (Oct. 19-21, 2011, Busan, Korea)

[from Korea Physical Society]

- Best oral presentation award at the Korean Physical Society Fall Meeting (Oct. 21-23, 2009, Changwon, Korea)

[from Korea Physical Society]

- Brain Korea for 21st century Scholarship (Sep. 2006 ~ Aug. 2012) [from Seoul National University]

- Seoul Science Fellowship (Sep. 2007 ~ Aug. 2009) [from Seoul City]

- Graduation with honors (Summa cum laude) (Aug. 2006) [from Seoul National University]

"Cogito, ergo sum"