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2023
[Sep 2023] European Optical Society Annual Meeting (EOSAM) 2023 in Dijon, France
I will give an invited talk at the EOSAM 2023 in Dijon, France. I am invited to present my work titled [Crystalline waveguides with carbon nanomaterials for miniaturized pulsed lasers] in the Session TOM5 S04: Optical materials and lasers. Looking forward to meeting you in Dijon! (with wine)
[Sep 2023] Starting a new position as a CNRS Postdoctoral Fellow at Centre de Recherche sur les Ions, les Matériaux et la Photonique (CIMAP), UMR 6252 CEA-CNRS-ENSICAEN, Université de Caen Normandie
[Jul 2023] POSCO Science Fellows Symposium in Physics 2023, POSCO TJ Park Foundation
[Jun 2023] CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2023 in Munich, Germany
It was a wonderful week in Munich, enjoying great times with many familiar faces and meeting new colleagues! Hope to see you all again soon! It was my second visit to Munich in 4 years. It was a still nice city and I also visited Regensburg near Munich.
My presentation was in the Session CA-9: Waveguide lasers on June 28th at 16:00. I shared my recent results on the characterization of noise spectra in gigahertz-level mode-locked waveguide lasers. Thanks to all those who attended and had a great discussion!
[May 2023] The 22nd Advanced Lasers and Their Applications (ALTA) in Jeju Island
I attended the 22nd ALTA conference (organized by the Quantum Electronics Division, Optical Society of Korea) in Jeju Island. My presentation was about the result on fundamentally mode-locked femtosecond operation of Yb:KLuW waveguide lasers at multi-gigahertz repetition rates. More information is available in Photonics Research 10(11) 2584 (2022).
P.S. I experienced my first flight cancellation due to weather conditions on my way back to Daejeon after the conference. Thus, I stayed an extra night in Jeju to wait for an alternative flight and was assigned to a flight to Seoul the next day.
[Mar 2023] MSCA-COFUND WINNING Normandy Fellowship, European Commission & Région Normandie
My project [ChiEF: Chip-scale Erbium Fluoride Mid-infrared Ultrafast Laser] has been selected for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) COFUND: WINNING Normandy Fellowship funded by the European Commission and the Région Normandie! The 2-year fellowship will support a research grant of 77,280 euros per year.
[Feb 2023] Commencement & Doctoral Hooding Ceremony, KAIST
I received my PhD degree in Physics at KAIST! I attended KAIST Commencement and Doctoral Hooding Ceremony of College of Natural Sciences.
[Feb 2023] Global Leadership Award (Creativity), KAIST
At the Celebration of KAIST's 52nd Founding Anniversary, I received the award from the President of KAIST. It recognized outstanding creativity according to the core values of KAIST: Creativity, Challenge, and Care. I was recommended as a nominee by the Head of Dept of Physics based on my diverse research achievements and international recognitions.
[Feb 2023] Society of Global PhD Fellows Symposium & Alumni Night, National Research Foundation of Korea
As a Board Committee Member of the Fellows, I organized and attended the Symposium & Alumni Night supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea. It was nice to meet the Fellows from broad professional fields without face masks. Hope to see them again soon!
2022
[Dec 2022] Optica Laser Congress (Advanced Solid State Lasers Conference) in Barcelona, Spain
I had a great time to meet and discuss with my dear colleagues in beautiful Barcelona! I presented the result on dynamically controllable Q-switched operation of beam-splitter-type waveguide laser. More information is available in Laser & Photonics Reviews 16(4), 2100501 (2022), highlighted as an inside front cover article.
[Sep 2022] POSCO Science Fellowship, POSCO TJ Park Foundation
My proposal [Compact pulsed waveguide lasers with nanocarbon photonics] has been selected for the POSCO Science Fellowship funded by the POSCO TJ Park Foundation! The fellowship supports young professors and postdoctoral researchers working in Korea. I have been finally accepted after the document screening and interview (8 for postdocs, acceptance rate <10%). The 2-year fellowship will support a research grant of 70,000,000 KRW. [Press release in Korean] [List of Fellows in Korean]
[Sep 2022] The 9th Annual Global PhD Fellows Conference, National Research Foundation of Korea
As a Conference Chair, I organized and attended the annual conference supported by National Research Foundation of Korea. There were valuable presentations on diverse topics from the Fellows. I gave an opening remark as a Conference Chair and spent a happy time with my dear colleagues!
[Aug 2022] The 15th CLEO Pacific Rim in Sapporo, Japan
[Jul 2022] KAIST Optics Group Student Poster Competition, KAIST Cross-generation Collaborative Lab
