About me

I am a group leader at the Center for Theoretical Physics of Complex Systems (PCS), Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in Korea. Before that, I was an independent postdoctoral fellow at the Brown Theoretical Physics Center at Brown University (US). I was a postdoc researcher at Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at Oxford University (UK) under the supervision of Prof Steven H. Simon. I obtained my Ph.D. degree in theoretical physics at Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics at The University of Chicago (US) under the supervision of Prof Dam Thanh Son.

I am interested in condensed matter theory, notably strongly correlated condensed matter systems and topological phases of matter. My primary interest focuses on understanding quantum matter's geometrical and topological aspects. 

I worked on several systems: Fractional quantum Hall,  twisted and multilayer graphene, vortex lattice in bosonic superfluids, skyrmions in ferromagnets and multilayer photonic crystals, topological insulators, fractonic systems. And studied many intriguing physical aspects of quantum matter: Exotic excitations, topological phases, phase transitions, quantum transports, and non-Hermitian topology.