Professor, Department of Nuclear & Quantum Engineering, KAIST

Joint Professor, Department of Physics, KAIST

Education

B.A., Seoul National University, Korea, Nuclear Engineering

M.A., Seoul National University, Korea, Nuclear Engineering

Ph.D. Princeton University, U.S.A., Astrophysical Sciences (Plasma Physics)

Experience

1997 – present                      Professor, KAIST

2009 – present                      Director, Impurity and Edge plasma Research Center

2011 – present                      Member, ITER Council, Science and Technology Advisory Committee (STAC)

2016 – 2018                          Member, Nuclear Fusion Council

2010 – 2012, 2014– 2016    Member, Nuclear Fusion Executive Council

2017 – 2018                          Member, Science and Technology Expert Evaluation Board

2013 – 2018                          Editorial Board Member, Nuclear Fusion (an IOP Science Journal)

2018 – 2021                          Editorial Board Member, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics (an IOP Science Journal)

2007 – 2013                          Editorial Board Member, Current Applied Physics Journal (an Elsevier Journal)

2014 – 2016                          Chairman, Korean Physical Society - Division of Plasma Physics

1996 – 1997                          Associate Research Physicist, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Research Field

- Impurity transport for high-temperature nuclear fusion plasmas

- Development of advanced plasma diagnostics

- Physics and application of weakly-ionized plasmas

- Physics and development of plasma thrusters