ONE Lab at Dept. of Physics, Sogang Univ.

Education:

[Sep. 2006 - Aug. 2012]   Ph.D., Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University (Supervised by Prof. Tae Won Noh)

                                         Thesis: "Ferroelectric Domain Dynamics and Statics Investigated by Piezoresponse Force Microscopy"

[Mar. 2000 - Aug. 2006]   B.S., Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University

                                        Graduation with honors (Summa cum laude)

                                        (Note that Feb. 2003 - Jun. 2005 in the military service)

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Professional Experience:

[Mar. 2020 - present]       Assistant Professor, Associate Professor

                                        Department of Physics, Sogang University

[Sep. 2016 - Feb. 2020]  Assistant Professor,

                                        Department of Applied Physics, Sookmyung Women's University

[Oct. 2015 - Aug. 2016]   Postdoctoral Fellow, 

                                        Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA (Advised by Dr. Sergei V. Kalinin)

[Aug. 2013 - Sep. 2015]  Visiting Scholar (Joint Postdoctoral Fellow), 

                                        Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA (Advised by Dr. Sergei V. Kalinin)

                                        (jointly funded by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Institute for Basic Sciences, Seoul National University)

[Sep. 2012 - Sep. 2015]  Postdoctoral Fellow, 

                                        Center for Correlated Electron Systems, Institute for Basic Sciences

                                        and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University (Advised by Prof. Tae Won Noh)

                                        (Note that I moved into the USA on Aug. 2013)

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Awards and Honors:

   - Young Physicist Award (Oct. 24, 2018) [from the Korean Physical Society (KPS)]

     (신진물리학자상, 한국물리학회)
   - Ceramographic Competition Award "First Place", Scanning Probe Microscopy Category (Nov. 2014)

     [from The American Ceramic Society]
   - Graduation with honors (The Graduate Student Research Award “First Place”) (Aug. 29, 2012) 
     [from Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University] 
   - The Excellent Presentation Award (Poster) at the 9th Korea-Japan Conference on Ferroelectrics (Aug. 7-10, 2012, Ulsan, Korea).
   - Best oral presentation award at the Korean Physical Society Fall Meeting (Oct. 19-21, 2011, Busan, Korea)
     [from the Korean Physical Society]
   - Best oral presentation award at the Korean Physical Society Fall Meeting (Oct. 21-23, 2009, Changwon, Korea)
     [from the Korean Physical Society]
   - Brain Korea for 21st century Scholarship (Sep. 2006 ~ Aug. 2012)   [from Seoul National University]  
   - Seoul Science Fellowship (Sep. 2007 ~ Aug. 2009)   [from Seoul City]
   - Graduation with honors (Summa cum laude) (Aug. 30, 2006)   [from Seoul National University]

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