Team

Employment

Mar 2026 - Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Hanyang University 

2025- 2026 - Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge

2024- 2026 - Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge

2022- 2024 - Research Associate, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Advisor: Prof. Bartomeu Monserrat

2021-2022 - Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Advisor: Prof. Youngkuk Kim and Prof. Eun-Gook Moon

2020-2021 - Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Advisor: Prof. Youngkuk Kim

Education

2014-2020 - Ph.D. in Physics, Hanyang University, Advisor: Prof. Sangmo Cheon 

2010-2014 - B.S. in Physics, summa cum laude, Hanyang University

Awards and Honors

Aug 2024 - KSEAUK Outstanding Early Career Researcher Award, The Korean Scientists and Engineers Association in the UK 

May 2024 - Materials Horizons Poster prize, Royal Society of Chemistry, QUANTUMatter 2024 

Oct 2023 - Young Physicist Award, Korean Physical Society 

Feb 2018 - Outstanding Poster Prize, Quantum Materials Symposium 2018 

Apr 2017 - Outstanding Oral Presentation Award, 2017 KPS Spring Meeting 

Mar 2017 - JSPS HOPE Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 

Feb 2016 - Excellent Paper Award, Research Institute for Natural Sciences at Hanyang University 

Sep 2015 - POSCO TJPark Doctoral Fellowship, POSCO TJ Park Foundation 

Apr, Oct 2013 - Grand Prize in Hanyang Academic Award (top 1% among all undergraduate students), Hanyang University (twice)

Mar 2011 - Feb 2014 - Basic Science Scholarship (full tuition), Hyundai Motor Chung Mong Koo Foundation