Employment

2022.09-present Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Photon Science, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)

2022.09-present Guest Scientist, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter

2019.04-2022.08 Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter

Humboldt Fellow (2020.9~2022.8)

NRF Next Academic Generation Fellowship (2019.9~2020.8)

Education

2013.3-2019.2 Department of Physics, UNIST

Doctoral Thesis: Ab initio study of spin-phonon dynamics and band topology through the real-time time-dependent density functional theory 

Advisor: Prof. Noejung Park

Nine bridge fellowship (2014.6~2017.5)

Yebong Best Dissertation Award

2009.3-2013.2 School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, UNIST

Bachelor: Device Physics and Electrical Engineering

Award and Scholarship

2021.10.20 Young Physicist Award, Korean Physics Society

2020.9-2022.8 Humboldt Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany

2019.9-2020.8 Next Academic Generation Fellowship, National Research Foundation of Korea

2019.2.13 Yebong Best Dissertation Award, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology

2014.6-2017.5 Nine Bridge Fellowship, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology

Research Fund

2024.04~2029.03 Excellent Starting Grant, National Research Foundation of Korea

2023.06-2027.12 EDISON 2.0, National Research Foundation of Korea

2023.06-2026.2 Basic Research Lab., National Research Foundation of Korea

2023.06-2024.2 General Research, National Research Foundation of Korea

Research interests and expertise

-  Ab initio-based quantum mechanical calculation of dynamical states of matter; light-matter interaction such as ultrafast phase transition and attosecond electron dynamics.

-  Non-equilibrium many-body simulation for quantum systems; light-enhanced superconductivity and cavity-matter interaction.

-  Development of computational package and methods for density functional theory, time-dependent density functional theory, non-equilibrium green’s function, and exact diagonalization.