Professional Career

• Sep. 2024 - Present       Associated Professor, Department of Physics, UNIST 

• Apr. 2017 – Aug. 2024  Team leader, staff scientist, FEL beam physics team at PAL, POSTECH

• Feb. 2016 – Apr. 2017         Research Associate at LCLS, SLAC, Stanford University, US

• Mar. 2015 – Jan. 2016         Post-doctor, Dept. of Physics and Photon Science, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)

Community Activities

• 한국물리학회 출연연특별위원회 부실무이사, 2023-2024

• Local Organizing Committee Chair, 4th ICFA Beam Dynamics Mini-Workshop on Machine Learning for Particle Accelerators (2024)

• Scientific Program Committee: Ultrafast Optics (UFO19)

                                                       9th International Conference on Attosecond Science and Technology (ATTO 9)

                                                       International Fusion and Plasma Conference (iFPC 2022)

Invited Talks 

• 2023   “High-brightness self-seeded hard X-ray free-electron laser at PAL-XFEL”, SPIE Optics+ 2023, Czech

• 2023   “X-ray Free Electron Laser using Laser Wakefield Accelerator’, Asian Forum for Accelerators and Detectors (AFAD), Australia

• 2022   “Electron beam based R&D facility at PAL-eLABs” 1st International Fusion and Plasma Conference (iFPC 2022), Korea

• 2022   “High-brightness self-seeded X-ray free-electron laser at PAL-XFEL”, International Conference on Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation (SRI) 

• 2022   “High-brightness self-seeded X-ray free-electron laser”, CLEO 2022, San Jose, CA, US 

• 2021  “Optical lasers in free electron laser at PAL-XFEL”, Advanced Lasers and Their Applications (ALTA)

• 2019  “Temporal Diagnostics and X-ray FEL Pulse Train using Slotted Foil Method”, 28th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL LASER PHYSICS WORKSHOP, Korea 

Education

• 2015  Ph.D. Physics and Photon Science, GIST

• 2012  Exchange student, University of Maryland at College Park, US

• 2007  B.S. Physics, Inha Univ.