CV

April 2024 -- Present time

Professor of Astrophysics at the Department of Astronomy and Space Science, Chungbuk National University (CBNU), South Korea 

September 2021 -- August 2022 

Sabbatical professor at the Institution for Theory and Computation, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University 

April 2019 -- March 2024

Associate professor at the Department of Astronomy and Space Science, Chungbuk National University (CBNU), South Korea 

April 2015 -- March 2019

Assistant professor at the Department of Astronomy and Space Science, CBNU, South Korea 

Prior to my appointment at CBNU, I was a KASI fellow at Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Korea. Before going to Korea, I was a postdoc at Hokkaido University, at Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, and at the Department of Astronomy at Kyoto University, Japan. 

I studied for my PhD at the School of Physics, Department of Science, Hokkaido University. Before studying for a PhD at Hokkaido University, I completed a B.Eng. degree in Applied Physics (Solid state physics) at Hokkaido University, Japan.

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My current research interest is black hole astronomy and astrophysics.

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My favorite quote by Albert Einstein is as follows: few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.