Prof. Dongwook Go, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics, College of Science, Korea University
Office: Asan Science Building 206
Tel: +82-(0)2-3290-3102
Email: dongwookgo@korea.ac.kr
Webpage: https://dongwookgo.com
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
Gwangil Baek
PhD Student (since March 2026)
Research Interest: Ballistic quantum transport + Chiral materials
BE and ME in Applied Physics, the University of Tokyo (2023, 2025)
Office: Asan Science Building 628
Email: ut341195c@korea.ac.kr
Webpage: https://gwangilbaek.squarespace.com/
Myeonil Choi
MS-PhD Student (since March 2026)
Research Interest: Multipole dynamics + Altermagnet
BSc in Physics, Konkuk University (2026)
Office: Asan Science Building 628
Email: myeonilchoi@korea.ac.kr
Sunghyuk Bae
Undergraduate Intern (since September 2025)
Research Interest: Nonlinear transport + Orbital-Rashba systems
Undergraduate Student at Korea University
Recipient of Truth Scholarship (진리장학금), 2025 Winter
Office: Asan Science Building 628
Email: aiiro0802@korea.ac.kr
Dongyoon Kang
Undergraduate Intern (since January 2026)
Research Interest: Magneto-electric coupling + Ferroelectric materials
Undergraduate Student at Korea University
Recipient of Truth Scholarship (진리장학금), 2025 Winter
Office: Asan Science Building 628
Email: dongyoon0326@korea.ac.kr
Seongjin Ko
Undergraduate Intern (since January 2026)
Research Interest: Ballistic quantum transport + Spin-orbit conversion
Undergraduate Student at Korea University
Office: Asan Science Building 628
Email: gene0516@korea.ac.kr
Juhyeon Lee
Undergraduate Intern (since March 2026)
Research Interest: Anomalous transport + Real-space topological textures
Undergraduate student at Korea University
Enrolled in PHYS470 (Explorations in Physics), 2026 Spring
Office: Asan Science Building 628
Email: leo021011@korea.ac.kr
DoYeul Kim
Undergraduate Intern (September 2025 - March 2026)
BSc in Physics, Korea University
Carried out a project in PHYS470 (Explorations in Physics), 2025 Fall
Email: mark01100070@gmail.com