Professors

• · 2004 Ph.D. in Physics, Seoul National University
• · 2001 M.S. in Physics, Seoul National University
• · 1999 B.S. in Physics, Seoul National University

• · 2009-present Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor, Seoul National University.
• · 2007-2009 Research Associate, Imperial College London.
• · 2004-2007 Research Fellow, Korea Institute for Advanced Study.

We study strong coupling emergent phenomena of quantum field theory, which is the fundamental framework of modern physics. Based on this, we also explore the microscopic descriptions of quantum gravity, which defies the usual methods of particle physics. The subjects include: string theory, emergent gravitational phenomena of QFT such as holography, and the quantum physics of black holes.

1. The Yang-Mills duals of small AdS black holes, arXiv preprint 2103.01401.
2. A 4d N=1 Cardy formula, JHEP 01 (2021), 025.
3. Large AdS black holes from QFT, arXiv preprint 1810.12067.
4. Elliptic genus of E-strings, JHEP 1709 (2017) 098.
5. General instanton counting and 5d SCFT, JHEP 150 (2015) 063.