Profile
Chang Hee Nam received his Ph. D. in plasma physics from Princeton University in 1988. After working at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory as a staff research physicist until 1989, he joined KAIST as a faculty member and became a full professor in 1998.
He started the Coherent X-ray Research Center in 1999 with the funding through the Creative Research Initiative Program.
After the CXRC program in 2012, he recently launched the Center for Relativistic Laser Science as a research center of Institute for Basic Science for the exploration of relativistic laser-matter interactions using femtosecond PW lasers at GIST.
He has received several awards including the scientist-of-the-month award from the Ministry of Science and Technology in 2002 and the award from the National Academy of Science in 2010. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and also of the Optical Society of America.