Associate Director, Center for Underground Physics, IBS
Education
BS, Seoul Univeristy (2000)
PhD, Seoul University (2007)
Major Experience
2007 - 2011Research Associate, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago
2011 - 2012Research Professor, Department of Physics, Korea University, Seoul
2012 - 2015Assistant Professor, Ewha Womans University
2014 - Spokesperson / KIMS dark matter search experiment
2015 - Co-spokesperson / COSINE dark matter search experiment
2015 - Associated Director, Center for Underground Physics IBS
Honors
201630 Young Scientist shining Korea, Dong-A & POSTECH
2013YeoungUn Award, Korea Physical Society
2011President postdoc fellowship, National Research Foundation, Korea
2007Graduate Thesis Award, Seoul National University
2007C.N. Yang Award, Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies
Major Publication
Limits on Interactions between Weakly Interacting Massive Particles and Nucleons Obtained with CsI(Tl) Crystal Detectors, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99 (2007) 091301
Precision top-quark mass measurements at CDF, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109 (2012) 152003
An experiment to search for dark-matter interactions using sodium iodide detectors, Nature 564 (2018) 83.
The first direct search for inelastic boosted dark matter with COSINE-100, Phys. Rev. Lett. 122 (2019) 131802.
Search for a dark matter-induced annual modulation signal in NaI(Tl) with the COSINE-100 experiment, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123 (2019) 031302.