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Prof. Minsup Hur

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Prof. Inhyuk Nam

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Career​​

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Professor, UNIST (Mar. 2021 - current)

Associate Professor, UNIST (Apr. 2015 - 2021)

Assistant Professor, UNIST (Aug. 2008 - Apr. 2015)

Senior Researcher, KERI (Sep. 2004 - Jul. 2008)

Post-doc., UC Berkeley (Sep. 2001 - Aug. 2004)

Career


Associate Professor, Physics, UNIST (Sep. 2024 - current) 

Team Leader, PAL-XFEL, PAL, POSTECH (Mar. 2023 - Aug. 2024)

Staff Scientist, PAL-XFEL, PAL, POSTECH (Apr. 2017 - Aug. 2024)

Research Associate at LCLS, SLAC, Stanford, US (Jan. 2016 - Apr. 2017)

Education​

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Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Physics Major), POSTECH (2000)

M.S. in Physics, POSTECH (1998)

B.S. in Physics, Seoul National Univ. (1996)

Education

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Ph.D. in Physics and Photon Science (Physics Major), GIST (2015)

M.S. in Photon Science and Technology, GIST (2009)

B.S. in Physics, Inha Univ. (2007)

Selected Publications

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  1. Narrowband Terahertz Emission from a Plasma Oscillator Imbedded in a Plasma Density Gradient, Physical Review Letters (2025).
     

  2. Laser pulse compression by a density gradient plasma for exawatt to zettawatt lasers, Nature Photonics (2023).
     

  3. A laser-plasma accelerator driven by two-color relativistic femtosecond laser pulses, Science Advances (2019).
     

  4.  Electron kinetic effects on Raman backscatter in plasmas, Physical Review Letters (2004).

Community Activities

SPIE Opt. Optoelectronics Conference Chair (2021 – 현재)

 

한국물리학회 플라즈마분과 운영 위원

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플라즈마 포토닉스 및 초강력 레이저 플라즈마 분야 학회 조직 및 운영

 

레이저 핵융합 등 고온고압 플라즈마 컨소시엄 운영

 

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Selected Publications

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  1. High-brightness self-seeded X-ray free-electron laser covering the 3.5 keV to 14.6 keV range, Nature Photonics (2021).
     

  2. Optimized terahertz pulse generation with chirped pump pulses from an echelon-based tilted-pulse-front (TPF) scheme, Optics Express (2023).
     

  3. Formation of diamonds in laser-compressed hydrocarbons at planetary interior conditions, Nature Astronomy (2017).

Community Activities

 

Nature, Communication Physics 저널 편집위원, 2025-2027

 

ICABU 2025 학회, SPC 한국물리학회 플라즈마물리 분과 운영위원, 2024-2025

 

한국물리학회 출연연특별위원회 부실무이사, 2023-2024

 

Local Organizing Committee Chair, 4th ICFA Beam Dynamics Mini-Workshop on Machine Learning for Particle Accelerators (2024)

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Scientific Program Committee: Ultrafast Optics (UFO19) 9th International Conference on Attosecond Science and Technology (ATTO 9)

 

International Fusion and Plasma Conference (iFPC 2022)

Invited Talks

2023 “High-brightness self-seeded hard X-ray free-electron laser at PAL-XFEL”, SPIE Optics+ 2023, Czech Republic

 

2023 “X-ray Free Electron Laser using Laser Wakefield Accelerator", Asian Forum for Accelerators and Detectors (AFAD), Australia

 

2022 “Electron beam based R&D facility at PAL-eLABs” 1st International Fusion and Plasma Conference (iFPC 2022), Korea

 

2022 “High-brightness self-seeded X-ray free-electron laser at PAL-XFEL”, International Conference on Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation (SRI)

 

2022 “High-brightness self-seeded X-ray free-electron laser”, CLEO

 

2022, San Jose, CA, US 2021 “Optical lasers in free electron laser at PAL-XFEL”, Advanced Lasers and Their Applications (ALTA)

 

2019 “Temporal Diagnostics and X-ray FEL Pulse Train using Slotted Foil Method”, 28th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL LASER PHYSICS WORKSHOP, Korea

Contact Us

    Address : Bd. 108, Office 401-12 (Hur), 401-10 (Nam)  Physics Dept. of UNIST, 50 Unist-gil, Ulsan, Korea 44919

    TEL : +82-52-217-2912 ( Hur), 2240 (Nam) 

    Email : mshur@unist.ac.kr (Prof. Hur)     /      ihnam@unist.ac.kr (Prof. Nam) 

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