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Prof. Minsup Hur

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Prof. Inhyuk Nam

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Career​​

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

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

M.S. in Physics, POSTECH (1998)

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

Education

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

  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

플라즈마 포토닉스 및 초강력 레이저 플라즈마 분야 학회 조직 및 운영

 

레이저 핵융합 등 고온고압 플라즈마 컨소시엄 운영

 

Selected Publications

  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)

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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