X-Lapplas - PEOPLE

Professor, UNIST (Mar. 2021 - current)

Associate Professor, UNIST (Apr. 2015 - 2021)

Assistant Professor, UNIST (Aug. 2008 - Apr. 2015)

Senior Researcher, KERI (Sep. 2004 - Jul. 2008)

Post-doc., UC Berkeley (Sep. 2001 - Aug. 2004)

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Physics Major), POSTECH (2000)

M.S. in Physics, POSTECH (1998)

B.S. in Physics, Seoul National Univ. (1996)

Narrowband Terahertz Emission from a Plasma Oscillator Imbedded in a Plasma Density Gradient, Physical Review Letters (2025).

2. Laser pulse compression by a density gradient plasma for exawatt to zettawatt lasers, Nature Photonics (2023).

3. A laser-plasma accelerator driven by two-color relativistic femtosecond laser pulses, Science Advances (2019).

4. Electron kinetic effects on Raman backscatter in plasmas, Physical Review Letters (2004).

Associate Professor, Physics, UNIST (Sep. 2024 - current)

Team Leader, PAL-XFEL, PAL, POSTECH (Mar. 2023 - Aug. 2024)

Staff Scientist, PAL-XFEL, PAL, POSTECH (Apr. 2017 - Aug. 2024)

Research Associate at LCLS, SLAC, Stanford, US (Jan. 2016 - Apr. 2017)

Ph.D. in Physics and Photon Science (Physics Major), GIST (2015)

M.S. in Photon Science and Technology, GIST (2009)

B.S. in Physics, Inha Univ. (2007)

1. High-brightness self-seeded X-ray free-electron laser covering the 3.5 keV to 14.6 keV range, Nature Photonics (2021).

2. Optimized terahertz pulse generation with chirped pump pulses from an echelon-based tilted-pulse-front (TPF) scheme, Optics Express (2023).

3. Formation of diamonds in laser-compressed hydrocarbons at planetary interior conditions, Nature Astronomy (2017).