2025

• SaeJune had the honour of giving a plenary keynote presentation at the International Applied Physics Meeting 2025 held at UM6P, Morocco. Many thanks to the organisational team and special thanks to Dr Lee for his warm hospitality.

• Rashel attended the OFEME held in Newport and delivered a poster presentation. Well done!

• Jerry attended the Oxford Water Day held at the University of Oxford together with his industrial supervisor Dr Imad Ahmed (Head of Innovation at the WRc) and delivered a poster presentation. Well done!

• SaeJune has become one of the SIG co-leaders in EPSRC NetworkPlus in Terahertz Systems. This is an exciting leadership opportunity to contribute to the UK THz community and represent Queen Mary. Huge thanks to the UK THz & QM colleagues, and Park Lab members!

• SaeJune delivered an invited talk at the EIC Environmental Laboratory Group Meeting. Many thanks to the EIC Team.

• We are excited to welcome Ruixiang to the team for his PhD. He joins us after completing his MSc at UCL, during which he successfully collaborated with us as a research intern on his MSc project. Good luck!!

• Park Lab is grateful to receive research funds from the WRc through industrial collaboration, NRF (via KICET) Global Young Connect, the Royal Society Research Grants. Many thanks to colleagues and project partners for their brilliant support.

• Rashel, Jerry, and Yefan had a great pleasure to contribute to the delivery of EuMW 2025 held in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

• Hwansik and SaeJune had the great pleasure of visiting Prof. Karl Unterrainer's THz research team at TU Wien. Special thanks to Karl, Daniel and Dmitry for their warm and kind hospitality!

• Hwansik gave a poster and an oral presentation on 3D metamaterials sensors he is developing at IRMMW-THz 2025 in Helsinki, Finland and EKC 2025 in Vienna, Austria, respectively. Good stuff!

• We had the great pleasure of hosting Dr Luke Peters from the Emergent Photonics Research Centre, Loughborough University for the AERG seminar.

• SaeJune delivered an invited lecture on "RF Hardware: Analogue" at the NATO STO Summer School on the “Future Electromagnetic Warfare Engineer,” held at Loughborough University. Special thanks to Dr Panagamuwa and EME Hub.

• SaeJune organised a two-day EME Hub themed workshop on THz communication and sensing. Special thanks to workshop co-organiers (Dr Abbasi (QUB) and Prof. Linfield (Leeds)), Prof. Alomainy, EME Hub members, and speakers.

• Jerry has been awarded the Demonstrator of the Year Awards. Congrats on well deserved and great achievements!

• Hwansik and SaeJune visited the University of Birmingham and SaeJune delivered a seminar on THz metamaterials sensors. Special thanks to Dr Navarro-Cía and Dr Siday!

• We had the great pleasure of hosting Dr Fabio Novelli from the University of Southampton for the AERG seminar.

• The Team had a great time visiting the THz Group at the University of Leeds. Special thanks to Prof. John Cunningham!

• SaeJune attended and contributed to the UK Metamaterials Network Conference & Forum 2025 as an invited speaker and panellist in the 'Sensing and Non-Destructive Testing (Photonic Metamaterials and Microwave & THz Metamaterials)' session. Hwansik also had the great pleasure of attending the conference! Special thanks to Dr Henthorn and Dr Kenney!

• SaeJune visited Korea Institute of Ceramic Engineering and Technology (KICET) in Jinju, South Korea and delivered a seminar on THz metamaterials and their applications. Special thanks to Dr Chee!

• SaeJune visited the National Battery Research Institute (NBRI) in Indonesia together with QM colleagues to deliver a joint workshop on 'Natural Disaster Recovery and Mitigation in Indonesia', where we talked about some really cool potential solutions from mobile solar power and cutting-edge sensor tech for risk management to metamaterials and legal strategies. Special thanks to Prof. Drew and Prof. Evvy.

• Ruixiang (currently MSc student at UCL) has joined the team as a Research Intern. Welcome to the team!

• SaeJune delivered a seminar at the monthly Quantum Meeting in the School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, QM. Special thanks to Dr James Thomas.

2024

• SaeJune delivered an invited talk at SNAIA – CRISTMAS 2024 in Paris.

• SaeJune has received the Research & Innovation Excellence Award at the Faculty of Science and Engineering Research Awards 2024. Many thanks to EECS & AERG  & Centre for Electronics colleagues and Park Lab members! Centre News

• We had the great pleasure of hosting Dr Alexander Valavanis from the University of Leeds for the AERG seminar.

• SaeJune gave an online invited seminar on the development of on-chip THz systems at Jeonbuk National University. Special thanks to Prof. Jung Mu Kim!

• SaeJune has co-organised the 3-day South Korea - UK THz Bilateral Exchange Session at the 2024 Korean Physical Society Fall Meeting. We had 21 invited speakers (11 from the UK and 10 from South Korea). Huge thanks to all the speakers for their wonderful contributions! I hope this event nicely feeds into the next move to form a close relationship between THz researchers in the two countries.

• SaeJune has visited South Korea to participate in the Ajou University - UK Research Seminar with fellow UK academics. Many thanks to Prof. Marco Peccianti (Loughborough) and Prof. Chong Li (Glasgow) for making this visit so special! Special thanks to Prof. Yeong Hwan Ahn, Dr Jonghee Yoon, and Prof. Ji-Yong Park.

• SaeJune has participated in the S&E Faculty Webinar in Healthcare as a panel member with other S&E academics.

• We had the great pleasure of hosting Prof. Mira Naftaly from the National Physical Laboratory for the AERG seminar.

• Yefan is joining the team for his PhD. Welcome and good luck!!

• SaeJune delivered an invited talk at eFutures conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

• SaeJune has received the Rising Star (T&R) Award at the EECS School away day. Huge thanks to EECS & AERG colleagues and Park Lab members! Centre News

• SaeJune has been promoted to Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) as of 1 Aug 2024.

• Hwansik successfully delivered an invited talk on his THz research at EKC 2024. Well done!

• SaeJune has been awarded the 2024 KSEAUK Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award. The award ceremony was held during Europe-Korea Conference 2024 at the University of Warwick. University News

• SaeJune chaired the "Bridging the Spectrum" session, bringing RF-microwave, THz, photonics, and quantum researchers together at EKC 2024. Special thanks to Dr Shin at Sejong Uni. Also, SaeJune delivered an invited talk at the ECR Career Development Workshop during EKC 2024. It's always exciting to interact with ECRs who have bright future!

• SaeJune has achieved the status of Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

• SaeJune delivered a lecture on Basic EM theory and Microwave Electronics during the 2024 EME Hub Summer School at QM.

• Rashel has been nominated in the 2023/2024 EECS Demonstrator Awards. Very well deserved and keep it up!

• SaeJune visited Jeonbuk National University in Jeonju and delivered an invited seminar. Special thanks to Prof. Jung Mu Kim!

• SaeJune delivered a talk at 20th WCNDT in Songdo.

• SaeJune has been shortlisted in the Early Career Researcher category in the 2024 Queen Mary Research and Innovation Awards.

• Dr Hwansik Kim is joining the team as a postdoc (PDRA) and will carry out our EPSRC NIA grant research. Welcome to the team, Hwansik!!

• SaeJune visited the Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) at the University of Surrey and delivered an invited seminar. Special thanks to Dr Yun and Dr Kim!

• Jerry is joining the team for his PhD. Jerry also did his MSc project and research internship with us. Welcome and good luck!!

• The team invited Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) academics and successfully organised a QMUL-UGM research workshop. It was our absolute pleasure to host Dr Ayodya Tenggara and Dr Rachmawan Budiarto in London. Please stay tuned to see where our collaboration goes! This has been highlighted in the Centre for Electronics news.

• SaeJune visited Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) in Indonesia to attend a project workshop and deliver a lecture. Many thanks to Dr Ayodya Tenggara for organising a wonderful event. Look forward to hosting UGM academics in London very shortly.

• The team led a stand at a faculty event 'A Night of Science and Engineering' and introduced one of our research themes on environmental monitoring. It was such a great team effort which was well received by attendees. Well done, Rashel and Jerry!

• SaeJune visited the Emergent Photonics Research Centre at Loughborough University and delivered an invited seminar. Special thanks to Dr Peters!

• Park Lab has been awarded the QM ISPF ODA Grant in partnership with Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) in Indonesia to form an international research team by delivering exploratory research on low-cost and 3D-printed future telecommunication devices. Many thanks to co-applicants at QMUL (Akram Alomainy, Riccardo Degl'Innocenti, and Henry Giddens) and project partners (Ayodya Tenggara and Rachmawan Budiarto) at UGM for their brilliant support.

• SaeJune has been appointed as Professor, by courtesy, in the Department of Physics at Ajou University in South Korea. 

• Chi Him (former MSc student) has joined the team as a Research Intern. Welcome back!

2023

• Park Lab has been awarded a substantial grant (EPSRC NIA for 3 years) to push the boundary in THz biosensing applications using free-space/on-chip metamaterials. Many thanks to my colleagues at QMUL and project partners (Prof John Cunningham at the University of Leeds, Prof Mira Naftaly at the National Physical Laboratory, and Andy Blackhall at WRc Group) for their brilliant support. The project will commence in early 2024! Please check out the "Opportunities" if you are interested in joining the team.

• SaeJune gave an online invited seminar on the development of free-space/on-chip THz applications at KwangWoon University. Special thanks to Dr Joe!

• Rashel is joining the team for his PhD. Rashel also did his MSc project with us. Welcome and good luck!!

• SaeJune delivered a brief research showcase at EECS Industrial Advisory Board.

• SaeJune delivered a talk at PIERS 2023, Prague.

• SaeJune has participated in Pint of Science 2023, London and delivered a talk (in a pub!) introducing terahertz science in general and terahertz research activities at Queen Mary University of London to the public. It was fun! Special thanks to Ms Kalanaki!

• SaeJune has formally become the Head of the Terahertz Laboratory.

• SaeJune gave a very brief invited talk at Ajou International Conference, celebrating Ajou's 50th anniversary. Congrats and good luck!

• Chi Him, Pooja, and Dipendra joined the team for their MSc projects. Welcome!

• Hritrik joined the team for his collaborative MSc project with the National Physical Laboratory. Welcome!

• SaeJune delivered an S&E Faculty PhD training seminar.

• We are part of a consortium that secured £7M in funding from the UK's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL)!
  Team – Electromagnetic Environment (EME) (emehub.org) 

2022

• SaeJune visited the University of Wuppertal in Germany after his recent application for an EPSRC travel grant was successful (10 UK-based THz researchers were selected). SaeJune gave a talk at the UK and German THz collaboration workshop on the development of THz metasurface biosensors.

• Sitong and Runsheng joined the team for their MSc projects. Welcome!

• SaeJune visited the Department of Physics at Ajou University in South Korea and delivered an invited seminar on the development of THz plasmonic devices using free-space/on-chip THz spectroscopy. Special thanks to Dr Lee!

• SaeJune visited Yonsei University in South Korea and gave an invited talk at the 14th Global Symposium on Millimeter-Waves & Terahertz on the development of THz metamaterial biosensors using free-space/on-chip THz spectroscopy.

• SaeJune visited the University of Warwick and delivered a talk at the Terabotics Consortium Meeting.

• New THz systems are on their way! We are aiming to complete installing free-space/on-chip THz systems with a fs fibre-laser in the Terahertz Laboratory as soon as possible. Also, there will be another fs laser moving in from the National Physical Laboratory. Huge thanks for this to Dr Mira Naftaly at NPL who is also a Visiting Professor at Queen Mary University of London.

2021

• SaeJune has become a Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Leeds, where he has a close collaborative relationship.

• SaeJune has secured a UK Lectureship (Assistant Professorship) in Terahertz Electronics to lead the Terahertz Laboratory in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London.

Contact: s.j.park@qmul.ac.uk

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Centre for Electronics

Antennas & Electromagnetics Research Group

School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science

Queen Mary University of London

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