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Employment

  • 2023.01--present: Principal Researcher, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
  • 2019.03--present: Associate Professor, Korea University of Science and Technology
  • 2017-- 2019: Asst. Professor, Korea University of Science and Technology
  • 2016.09--2022.12: Senior Researcher, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
  • 2012-- 2016: CITA Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto, Canada
  • 2013-- 2015: Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Germany

Education

  • 2012 Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
  • 2008 M.S. University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
  • B.S. Hanoi National University of Education, Vietnam

Awards, Honors, Fellowship, and Grants

  • 2024 NCU-Delta Young Astronomer Lectureship Award, which recognize worldwide scholars under the age of 45 who have made outstanding contributions in the field of astronomy or astrophysics.
  • 2023 APRIM Plenary Speaker, IAU Regional Meeting, APRIM 2023, Japan
  • 2022 Outstanding Academic Award from Korea Astronomical Society for Outstanding Research Performance in the last 10 years
  • 2021 Outstanding Research Achievement Award from NST, Ministry of Science and ICT, Korea
  • 2020 Excellence Award for Young Researcher (Research Creation) from NST, Ministry of Science and ICT, Korea

  • 2024 Outstanding Research Award (Grand Prize) from Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
  • 2023 Outstanding Research Award (Excellent Prize) from Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
  • 2022 Outstanding Research Award (Grand Prize) from Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
  • 2021 Outstanding Research Award (Grand Prize) from Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
  • 2020 Outstanding Research Award (Grand Prize) from Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
  • 2019 Outstanding Research Award (Grand Prize) from Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
  • 2018 Outstanding Research Award (Grand Prize) from Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute

  • 2019-2023, NRF Mid-career Research Grant from Korean Goverment (total ~350K USD)
  • 2017-2020, NRF Basic Research Grant from Korean Goverment (total ~ 150K USD)
  • 2012 Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • 2012 CITA Postdoctoral Fellowship


Conference/Workshop Organized

Invited Talks and Colloquia (Selected only)

  • April 2020, Invited talk, The building blocks of planets 2020 - Ringberg Castle
  • March 2020, Invited talk, Astropol 2020, Hiroshima, Japan
  • Feb, 2020, Invited talk, Magnetic Fields in the Universe VII Conference, Quy Nhon, Vietnam
  • Nov 2019, Invited talk, 14th Asia-Pacific Physics Conference, Malaysia
  • August 2019, Invited talk, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society Meeting, Singapore
  • June 2019, Invited lectures, International Plasma Summer School, Quy Nhon, Vietnam
  • May 2019, Invited talk, Midwest Magnetic Field workshop, Wisconsin, USA
  • March 2019, Invited talk, ALMA polarimetry conference, Tokyo, Japan
  • Oct 2018, Invited talk, Cosmic Dust and Magnetism, Daejeon, Korea
  • July 2018, Invited talk, Cosmic cycle of Gas and Dust, Quy Nhon, Vietnam
  • May 2018, Invited review, From protostellar cores to disks, Paris, France
  • June 2016, Astronomy Colloquium, University of Toronto
  • April 2016, Astronomy Colloquium, University of Florida
  • March 2016, Astronomy Colloquium, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Feb 2016, Astronomy Colloquium, ASIAA