Associate Professor
Department of Astronomy,
Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea
Ph.D., Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, 2009
M.S., Astronomy, Seoul National University, 2004
B.S., Physics, Seoul National University, 2002
2025- Associate Professor, Yonsei University
2018-2025 Associate, Assistant Professor, Kyungpook National University
2013-2018 Research Staff, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI)
2012-2013 Postdoc Fellow, Carnegie Observatories
2011-2012 Postdoc Fellow, KASI
2009-2011 Postdoc Researcher, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
2006-2009 Research Assistant, Carnegie Observatories
Excellent Paper Award (Korean Federation of Science & Technology Societies), 2022
Outstanding Young Astronomer Award (Korean Astronomical Society), 2016
Research Innovation Award (National Research Council of Science & Technology), 2016
KASI-Carnegie Fellowship, 2011-2013
SPHEREx AGN External Collaborators (Leader; 2023- )
Review Board for National Research Foundation of Korea (2021-2024)
Peer review for ApJ, ApJL, MNRAS, A&A, JKAS, RASS
Time Allocation Committee for K-GMT Science Programs (Group Chair)
User Committee for Gemini (2024-)
K-GMT Operation Working Group (2014-2018)
Korea SPHEREx User Committee (Chair)
K-GMT Science and Instrument Working Group (SIWG)
Du Pont 2.5m (Imager, Long-slit Spectrograph)
Magellan 6.5m (IMACS, LDSS3, MagE, FIRE)
Gemini 8.1m (GMOS, GNIRS, Flamingos2)
WHT 4.2m (NIR imager)
Hubble Space Telescope (WFPC2, ACS, WFC3)
2024-2034 Excellent Young Researcher Program (한우물파기)
2023-2024 Mid-Career Researcher Program
2022-2025 Basic Research Laboratory (Co-PIs: Hyunjin Shim, Dohyeong Kim, Hyunmi Song)
2020-2022 NRF-NSFC Scientific Cooperation Program
2020-2023 Mid-Career Researcher Program
2018-2019 Korea-EU Researcher Exchange Program
2017-2020 Young Researcher Program
2023 KAS meeting (LSST Special Session), AGN Sciences with the LSST and Synergies with Multiwavelength Time-domain Survey, 2023
Spectral Variability of Active Galactic Nuclei, GWUniverse Focus Workshop: 7-Dimensional Telescope and Its Scientific Promises, 2021
Spectral Variability of Galactic Nuclei: Synergies between 7-DT and SPHEREx, GWUniverse Inauguration Workshop, 2021
Connection Between Star Formation and Black Hole Growth in Nearby Type I AGNs, Colloquium in Seoul National University, 2020
AGN science with SPHEREx and Synergy with Subaru, EAO Subaru Science Workshop, 2019
Observational Evidence for the Coevolution between Supermassive Black Holes and Host Galaxies, Colloquium in Yonsei University, 2017
Recent Activities of K-GMT Science Program, and Coevolution of Supermassive Black Holes and Galaxies, Subaru International Partnership Science and Instrumentation Workshop, 2017
Current members
Taekeon Kim: Graduate
Junwoo Jeong: Undergraduate
Shinyu Kim: Researcher
Former members
Suyeon Son: Ph.D.
Woowon Byun: Ph.D.
Jiwon Sohn: M.S.
Ga-young Lee: M.S.
Sanghyun Kim: M.S.
Jiyeon Sung: M.S.
Jaehyuk Geum: M.S.
Hyeonmo Hwang: M.S.
Suhwan Park: M.S.
Sung Ｈyun Hwang: M.S.
Seunghyun Lee: B.S.
Shinyu Kim: B.S.
Been Yeo: B.S.
Jaejin Shin: Postdoc
Yongjung Kim: Postdoc
Jeong Hwan Lee: Postdoc
Daeseong Park: Postdoc
Yun-Kyeong Sheen: Postdoc
Yi-gon Kim: Researcher