Center for Relativistic Laser ScienceExplore the interaction between ultra-intense light and matter

Byoung-ick Cho received his Ph.D. in plasma physics from The University of Texas at Austin in 2008, and worked at Advanced Light Source, LBNL, as an ALS postdoc fellow until 2012. He joined the department of physics and photon science, GIST as a faculty member, and became an associate professor in 2018. He is leading the high-energy-density physics group, and his research interests include, but not limited to, warm / hot dense matter, ultraintense laser-matter interactions, ultrafast optical and x-ray spectroscopy, and X-ray free electron laser science.

Chul Min Kim received his Ph. D. in physics from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 2006 with a theoretical analysis of atomic high harmonic generation in a two-color laser field. In the same year, he joined Advanced Photonics Research Institute (APRI), Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology as a staff scientist and has been working there so far. At APRI, he extended his research scope to include laser-plasma physics and conducted theoretical research on plasma-based x-ray lasers and x-ray holography. In 2012, joining as a campus research fellow Center for Relativistic Laser Science, Institute for Basic Science, he began to study relativistic laser-plasma interactions. He is interested in the novel physics embodied in ultra-intense light-matter interactions.