Team

EXPERIENCE

Sep. 2025 - Present: Assistant Professor
School of Materials Science and Semiconductor Engineering, University of Ulsan, Republic of Korea
Department of Physics, University of Ulsan, Republic of Korea

Sep. 2025 - Present: Guest Scientist
Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids (MPI-CPfS), Dresden, Germany

Sep. 2022 - Aug. 2025: Postdoctoral Researcher
Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids (MPI-CPfS), Dresden, Germany

EDUCATION

Sep. 2018 - Feb. 2023

Ph.D., in Energy Science

Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Republic of Korea

Advisor: Prof. Gyung-Min Choi

Feb. 2016 – July. 2018

Ph.D. candidate, in Physics and Photon Science

Department of Physics and Photon Science, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Republic of Korea

Advisor: Prof. Jong-Seok Lee

Feb. 2014 – Feb. 2016

M.A., in Physics and Photon Science

Department of Physics and Photon Science, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Republic of Korea

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Jong-Seok Lee

Feb. 2007 – Feb. 2013

B.A., in Applied Physics (Summa Cum Laude)

Applied Physics, Dankook University, Republic of Korea

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIP

1. Dec. 2024
   Awarded for Outstanding Research Contribution for exceptional research performance and potential during the Phase 4 BK21 Project
   The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Republic of Korea
   
   

2. Oct. 2021
   Grand Prize, 2021 SKKU Graduate Student Paper Award
   Awarded for Presentation related to the first observation of the Orbital Hall effect.
   
   

3. Feb. 2021
   Silver Prize (2nd prize in basic science division), The 27th SAMSUNG Humantech Paper Award
   Awarded for Presentation related to the direct observation of Orbital Hall effect.
   
   

4. Dec. 2021- Dec.2019
   Ilun Scholarship 2019, Ilun Science and Technology Foundation
   Fellowship for graduate students having excellent research achievements in all fields.
   
   

5. Jul. 2021
   Outstanding Poster presentation Award
   The Korea Magnetics Society 2021 summer meeting
   Awarded for Presentation entitled: “Static and time-resolved optical detection of magnetization vectors by spin Hall effect”
   
   

6. Apr. 2021
   Outstanding Oral presentation Award
   The Korean Physical Society 2021 spring meeting
   Awarded for Presentation entitled: Current-induced nonlinear optical Hall effect in Weyl semimetal WTe2
   
   

7. Apr. 2017
   Outstanding Poster Award, The Korean Physical Society 2017 spring meeting
   Awarded for Presentation entitled: “Thermal transport measurement in thin films and their boundaries by using time-domain thermoreflectance (TDTR) method”
   
   

8. Apr. 2016
   The Best Poster Award, The Korean Physical Society 2016 spring meeting
   Awarded for Presentation entitled: “Ultrafast dynamics observation of bulk-to-surface carrier injection of Dirac-electron of surface state in the topological insulator Bi1.5Sb0.5Te1.7Se1.3”
   
   

9. Oct. 2015
   The Best Poster Award, The Korean Physical Society 2015 fall meeting
   Awarded for Presentation entitled: “Strategy of a thermal conductivity measurement of topological insulators using a time-domain thermoreflectance technique”
   
   

10. Mar. 2014 - Jun. 2018
    Korean Government Fellowship, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
    
    

11. Feb. 2013
    Summa Cum Laude (1st/16), Applied Physics, Dankook University

RESEARCH INTEREST AND EXPERTISE

RESEARCH INTEREST AND EXPERTISE