Profile

Principal Investigator: Prof. Moses Chung (moses_AT_postech.ac.kr)

Department of Physics and Division of Advanced Nuclear Engineering (DANE)

Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)

Career

2014~2024: Assistant / Associate / Tenured-Associate / Full Professor, Dept. of Physics, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
2012~2014: Peoples Fellow / Associate Scientist, Accelerator Physics Center, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)
2010~2012: Assistant Professor, Handong Global University (HGU) at Pohang
2008~2010: Postdoc, Accelerator Physics Center, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)
2001~2008: Research Assistant, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

Education

Ph. D. Plasma Physics, Princeton University
- Advisor: Prof. Ronald C. Davidson (Passed away on 19 May 2016)
- Thesis: "Studies of charged particle beam dynamics on the Paul trap simulator experiment pure ion plasma"
M. S. Nuclear Engineering (Nuclear Fusion Major), Seoul National University
- Advisor: Prof. Sang-Hee Hong (Retired)
- Thesis: "Full wave modeling for fast wave current drive simulation in tokamak plasmas"
B. S. Nuclear Engineering, Seoul National University

Awards/Honors/Memberships

- Best Student Award from College of Engineering, Seoul National University (Graduated with Highest Honors in the Nuclear Engineering Dept.)
- Peoples Fellowship from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Outstanding Accelerator Scientists Early in Their Careers, 2012 - 2014)
- Editor, AAPPS Bulletin / Accelerator Science (2021 - )
- Committee Member, Asian Committee for Future Accelerators (ACFA) (2021 - )
- Vice Chair, The Korean Physical Society (KPS) / Division of Plasma Physics (2020 - 2022)
- Chair, The Korean Physical Society (KPS) / Division of Plasma Physics (2022 - 2024)