Overview
I am originally from South Korea. I earned my bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Astronomy from Seoul National University in 2006 and 2008. I worked at Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute for three years before I moved to the University of Michigan in 2011 for PhD. After I completed my PhD in 2017, I was a Vera Rubin postdoctoral fellow and then a NHFP Sagan postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Institution for Science.
Educational Background
- Ph.D, University of Michigan, 2017
- M.S., Seoul National University, 2008
- B.S., Seoul National University, 2006
Research
The ultimate goal of my research is to better understand how planets form. To do so, I study young stars, protoplanetary disks, and star-forming environments. I use primarily numerical simulations to study how planets interact with their parental protoplanetary disks as they grow, but my research program has been expanded to involve observations (mostly using ALMA) and machine learning to infer physical processes operating in protoplanetary disks and find young, forming planets therein.
Areas of Expertise
- Planet-Disk Interaction
- Planet Formation
- Hydrodynamic Instabilities
- Accretion Disks
- High-Performance Computing
- Radio Astronomy