Experience:

• 2025-Present: Assistant Professor
  Department of Physics, College of Science, Korea University, Republic of Korea

• 2020-2025: Postdoctoral Researcher
  Peter Grünberg Institute, Jülich Research Centre & Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

• 2019-2020: Postdoctoral Researcher
  Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Republic of Korea

Education:

• 2019: PhD in Physics
  Department of Physics,  Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Republic of Korea
  Thesis: Orbital Dynamics and Transport in Spintronics, Supervisor: Prof. Hyun-Woo Lee

• 2013: BSc in Physics
  Department of Physics,  Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Republic of Korea
  *Graduated with honor Magna cum Laude

Awards:

• 2025: POSCO Science Fellow, POSCO TJ Park Foundation
  One of the foundation’s flagship programs that identifies and supports outstanding early-career scientists in the fields of natural and applied sciences in Korea. 

• 2025: Early Career Scientist Prize, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP)
  On Commission on Magnetism (C9) for pioneering theoretical studies of the emerging field of orbitronics, which concerns the generation and transport of electron orbital angular momentum in solids

• 2024: Nominee for the 73rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
  *Could not attend the meeting unfortunately due to another duty

Service and Leadership:

• Since 2026: Rising Stars Committee
  Newton, Cell Press

• Since 2025: Guest Editor
  Communications in Physics

• 2024: Advisory Committee
  The 3rd Orbitronics Workshop (San Sebastian)

• 2025: Workshop Organizer
  X-tronics with Emerging Magnetic Materials, WE-Heraeus Foundation

• 2024: Program Committee and Symposium Chair
  International Conference on Magnetism (ICM), Symposium on Orbitronics

• 2022: Workshop Organizer
  Orbitronics: From Topological Matter to Next-Level Electronics, Spin Phenomena Interdisciplinary Center
  *The 'first' international workshop on orbitronics

• Referee in peer-reviewed journals
  Nature Physics, Nature Materials, Nature Communications, npj Spintronics, Communications in Physics, JMMM, PNAS, Physical Reviews (PRL, PRB, PR Applied, PR Materials), Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Nano Letters