Employment
Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics
July 2024 – present
Eberly College of Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Associate Head for Undergraduate Program, Astronomy and Astrophysics department
July 2022 – present
Eberly College of Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Director of Center for Theoretical and Observational Cosmology
December 2021 – present
Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, Eberly College of Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Professor of Physics (part-time contract)
July 2022 – present
School of Physics, Korea Institute for Advanced Study
Associate Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics
July 2020 – June 2024
Assistant Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics
April 2014 – June 2020
Eberly College of Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
April 2014 – June 2020
Eberly College of Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Astrophysical Sciences
September 2011 – March 2014
Physics and Astronomy Department, the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Robinson Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Cosmology
September 2010 – August 2011
Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Education
Ph.D. of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
Advisor : Eiichiro komatsu
Dissertation : Cosmology with high (z>1) redshift galaxy surveys
September 2005 – August 2010
Dissertation : Cosmology with high (z>1) redshift galaxy surveys
September 2005 – August 2010
M.S. of Physics, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea
Advisor : Ewan D. Stewart
Thesis : “Affleck-Dine type baryogenesis induced by thermal inflation”
September 2002 – August 2004
Thesis : “Affleck-Dine type baryogenesis induced by thermal inflation”
September 2002 – August 2004
B.S. of Physics (minor, Mathematics), KAIST, Daejeon, Korea
Advisor : Ewan D. Stewart
Senior Thesis : “Twin paradox in a toroidal universe”
March 1998 – August 2002
Senior Thesis : “Twin paradox in a toroidal universe”
March 1998 – August 2002
Chungbuk Science High School, Cheongwon, Korea
March 1996 – February 1998
Awards/Academic Honors
One of 30 promising young Korean scientists (한국을 빛낼 젊은 과학자 30인)
Postech and Dong-A ilbo, 2016
OYRA (Outstanding Young Researcher Award)
AKPA (Association of Korean Physicists in America), 2015
Robinson Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Cosmology
Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, 2010-2013 (resigned in August 2011)
David Benfield Memorial Scholarship in Astronomy
For excellence in research, Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin, 2009-2010
Frank N. Edmonds Memorial Fellowship
To support a student who shows promise in research,Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin, 2008
Wendell Gordon Endowed University Fellowship
Graduate School, The University of Texas at Austin, 2008-2009
The 2007 Award for the Board of Visitor best second year research projcet
Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin, 2007
Dean’s excellence award
College of Natural Science, The University of Texas at Austin, 2005