About

Greetings from Professor Kwon

Welcome to my team! I’m a professor at Department of Earth Science Education and an affiliate professor at Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University (SNU). My team members are interested in a broad range of observational studies on star and planet formation. On large scales, we are interested in physical properties of molecular clouds including magnetic fields, which are initial conditions of star formation. On small scales, we have been studying physical properties of young stellar objects (YSOs), including magnetic fields and grain growth, in various evolutionary stages from Class 0 to Class II YSOs. Currently, we mainly use radio observational data particularly from James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) and Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).

Prof. Woojin Kwon

Research fields

Low/high mass star formation, planet formation
Magnetic fields, grain growth, accretion mechanisms, driving mechanisms of bipolar outflows
Circumstellar structures of YSOs, filamentary structures of molecular clouds

Education

Ph.D. in Astronomy, 2009, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA
M.S. in Astronomy, SNU
B.S. in Earth Science Education, SNU

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

Department Chair, SNU, 2024-present
Associate Professor, SNU, 2024-present
Assistant Professor, SNU, 2020-2024
Principal Researcher, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI), 2019-2020
Associate Professor, University of Science and Technology, 2016-2020
Senior Researcher, KASI, 2015-2018
Postdoc, SRON, The Netherlands, 2012-2015
CARMA Postdoc, UIUC, USA, 2009-2012