Profile
Young-Gwan Choi (Y.-G. Choi)
e-mail: choiyg1024@gmail.com / Young-Gwan.Choi@cpfs.mpg.de
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.co.kr/citations?user=frET1G4AAAAJ&hl=ko&authuser=1
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/choiyg1024/
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Young-Gwan-Choi
CURRENT POSITION
Postdoctoral Researcher
Quantum Information for Quantum Materials group (Group leader: Dr. Uri Vool)
at Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden (Nöthnitzer Str. 40, 01187 Dresden, Germany)
EXPERIENCE
Sep. 2022 - current
Post-doctoral researcher
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany
Advisor: Dr. Uri Vool
EDUCATIONS
2018 - 2023
Ph.D., in Energy Science
Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Republic of Korea
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Gyung-Min Choi
2016 – 2018
Ph.D. candidate, in Physics and Photon Science
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Republic of Korea
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Jong-Seok Lee
2014 – 2016
M. A., in Physics and Photon Science
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Republic of Korea
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Jong-Seok Lee
2007 – 2013
B.A., in Applied Physics (Summa Cum Laude)
Dankook University, Republic of Korea
HONORS AND AWARDS
OCT. 2021
Grand Prize (1st / 273 papers with 8,000 $)
2021 SKKU Graduate Student Paper Award
Awarded for Presentation related to the first observation of the Orbital Hall effect.
2. FEB. 2021
Silver Prize (2nd prize in basic science division, out of 1991 papers with 7,000 $ for the student and 4,000 $ for the director)
The 27th SAMSUNG Humantech Paper Award
Awarded for Presentation related to the direct observation of Orbital Hall effect
3. DEC. 2021- DEC.2019
Ilun Scholarship 2019 (20,000 $ for two years)
Ilun Science and Technology Foundation
Fellowship for graduate students having excellent research achievements in all fields.
4. JUL. 2021
Outstanding Poster presentation Award
The Korea Magnetics Society 2021 summer meeting
Awarded for Presentation entitled: “Static and time-resolved optical detection of
magnetization vectors by spin Hall effect”
5. APR. 2021
Outstanding Oral presentation Award
The Korean Physical Society 2021 spring meeting
Awarded for Presentation entitled: Current-induced nonlinear optical Hall effect in
Weyl semimetal WTe2
6. APR. 2017
Outstanding Poster Award
The Korean Physical Society 2017 spring meeting
Awarded for Presentation entitled: “Thermal transport measurement in thin films and their boundaries by using time-domain thermoreflectance (TDTR) method”
7. APR. 2016
The Best Poster Award
The Korean Physical Society 2016 spring meeting
Awarded for Presentation entitled: “Ultrafast dynamics observation of bulk-to-surface carrier injection of Dirac-electron of surface state in the topological insulator Bi1.5Sb0.5Te1.7Se1.3”
8. OCT. 2015
The Best Poster Award
The Korean Physical Society 2015 fall meeting
Awarded for Presentation entitled: “Strategy of a thermal conductivity measurement of topological insulators using a time-domain thermoreflectance technique”
9. MAR. 2014- JUN. 2018
Korean Government Fellowship
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
10. FEB. 2013
Summa Cum Laude (1st/16)
Applied Physics, Dankook University