PROGRAMME

Minjae Kim is a research fellow and project lead in the Astronomy and Astrophysics group at the University of Warwick, UK. He earned his MSc and PhD from Heidelberg University and Kiel University, Germany. His main areas of expertise include numerical modelling, data analysis, and astronomical observation. His research focuses primarily on theoretical astronomy and astrophysics, with a particular interest in planet formation and evolution, including protoplanetary and debris discs, comets, and the solar system. His current research focuses on looking at traces in the dust that stemmed from debris disks around stars to gain a better understanding of planetary system formation and evolution. In addition, he is passionate about utilizing radiative transfer simulation on circumstellar disks around stars. 

SaeJune is the Head of the Terahertz Laboratory and an Assistant Professor (UK Lec.) in Terahertz Electronics at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and a Professor, by courtesy, in the Department of Physics at Ajou University. His primary research interest is in developing biosensors, on-chip devices, and MEMS-based metamaterials operating in microwave and terahertz frequency ranges.

Sang-hee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Sejong University, South Korea. Prior to this position, I served as a Higher Research Scientist at the UK's renowned National Physical Laboratory (NPL). He completed his electrical and electronics engineering PhD from Imperial College London. His current research areas include designing and manufacturing RF and quasi-optical devices for microwave, millimetre wave and THz applications using additive manufacturing techniques. His research interests also include on-wafer RF measurements and high-frequency metrology for cryogenic quantum computing applications.

Dr Lim completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in Physics at KAIST, where he focused on ultrafast quantum optics for his PhD. Following his doctoral studies, he continued at KAIST as a Postdoctoral Researcher and later as a Research Assistant Professor, concentrating on ultrafast quantum computing. He then moved to Imperial College, where he worked as a Research Associate, focusing on the production and manipulation of ultracold molecules and their applications in quantum science and tests of fundamental physics. He was awarded an Ernest Rutherford Fellowship from UKRI STFC for his contributions in this field. In his current capacity, he leads a research team dedicated to developing innovative quantum technologies for precision tests of fundamental physics using ultracold molecules.

Dr. Lim actively engages in professional service, serving as a Committee Member for the Institute of Physics Quantum Optics, Quantum Information, and Quantum Control Group, as well as on the organizing committees of two international conferences, QuAMP2023 and Photon2024. Additionally, he contributes as a reviewer for grants from the US National Science Foundation and for several scholarly journals, including Physical Review journals and New Journal of Physics.

Dr Yoon Hong Choi has obtained his BSc and MSc in Mathematics from the Department of Mathematics at Chung-Ang University in South Korea, and his PhD in Mathematics from Edith Cowan University in Australia on modelling mosquito-borne Ross River virus transmission dynamics in Western Australia WA). Since then, he has worked on estimating the opiate user population in WA and Ireland, MRSA risk factor analysis in Queensland, and optimising the use of biological agents to control the pest population in agriculture and the impact of climate change on pest population in England. Since he joined Health Protection Agency (later became Public Health England in 2013 and UK Health Security Agency in 2021) in 2004, he has contributed to various modelling and cost-effectiveness projects of vaccine-preventable diseases to provide scientific evidence to the Joint Committee of Vaccination and Immunisation and DHSC regarding the UK vaccination programme policies related to MMR, Pertussis, Human Papillomavirus and Streptococcus pneumoniae.  His modelling work contributed to the WHO position paper on Pertussis.

Jeehyun Lee received her Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Iowa State University in 2001 under the supervision of Dr. Max Gunzburger. She worked for the MRSEC (materials research science and engineering center) at Carnegie Mellon University from 2001 to 2004 as a research associate. She has been a professor in Mathematics at Yonsei University since 2004 and joined CSE(computational science and engineering) in 2008. Her research area is numerical analysis and scientific computing involving control and optimization, mathematical biology, and epidemiology. She has been collaborating with medical doctors and policy makers on developing mathematical models to predict dynamics, to asses intervention strategies incuding economic evaluation, and to derive optimal control of various diseases.

Taeyoung Ha is working at Data analysis Team in Division of Industrial Mathematics of National Institute for Mathematical Sciences (NIMS) as a principal researcher since March 1997. The research interests include scientific computing and numerical analysis and data analysis. Dr. Ha has worked at Geophysical Lab. in Seoul National University as a postdoc, and did Ph.D in mathematics at Seoul National University under supervision of Prof. Dongwoo Sheen.

Minjae Kim is a research fellow and project lead in the Astronomy and Astrophysics group at the University of Warwick, UK. He earned his MSc and PhD from Heidelberg University and Kiel University, Germany. His current research focuses on looking at traces in the dust that stemmed from debris disks around stars to gain a better understanding of planetary system formation and evolution. In addition, he is passionate about utilizing radiative transfer simulation on circumstellar disks around stars. His main areas of expertise include numerical modelling, data analysis, and observation. His research focuses primarily on theoretical astronomy and astrophysics, with a particular interest in debris disks, comets, and the solar system.

Youngchan is Lecturer in Quantum Biology from the Department of Microbial Sciences, the School of Biosciences, University of Surrey, UK. He is associated with two multidisciplinary research centres in the University; Leverhulme Quantum Biology Doctoral Training Centre (QB-DTC) and Advanced Technology Institute (ATI). He obtained his PhD in Physics from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST, South Korea) in 2011. His thesis research was focused on developing terahertz systems using ultrafast femtosecond lasers. Since his research interest is to use ultrafast spectroscopic approaches to better understand biological phenomena, he next completed three postdoctoral training fellowships at KAIST (South Korea, 2011-2013), Imperial College London (UK, 2013-2015), and the National Institutes of Health (USA, 2015-2020). He joined the University of Surrey in 2020 where he leads an interdisciplinary research group mainly interested in the field of quantum biology. His interests encompass from exploring non-classical dynamics of photo-induced energy transfer reactions in biological macromolecules to developing photon-based technologies to probe biological sciences, treat diseases and invent bio-quantum tools. His research group uses femtosecond spectroscopy, engineering biology, quantum biology to investigate biomolecular systems that can exhibit the quantum effects under physiological conditions. He has been actively participated in teaching and mentoring both at the undergraduate and postgraduate level in statistics, biochemistry, biophotonics, and quantum biology. At the EKC2024, he serves as the programme chair.