Personal Data

• Name: Chan Park
• Living Place: Sejong, Republic of Korea
• Orcid: 0000-0002-2692-7520

Education

• Feb. 2009 - Feb. 2016: Doctor of Philosphy in Physics @ KAIST
  • Major: Numerical Relativity
  • Thesis: Black Hole Universe with Rotation
  • Advisor: Prof. Gungwong Kang
• Mar. 2003 - Jan. 2009: Bachelor of Science @ KAIST
  • Major : Physics
  • Minor : Computer Science

Work Experiences

• Dec. 2021 - Current: Research Fellow @ Center for Theoretical Physics of the Universe, IBS
  • Astrophysics
    • General relativistic perturbation of electromagnetic waves
• Dec. 2019 - Dec. 2021: Postdoctoral Researcher @ Division of Basic Researches for Industrial Mathematics, NIMS
  • Astrophysics
    • General relativistic perturbation of electromagnetic waves
  • Earth science
    • Ice sheet dynamics
• May. 2019 - Dec. 2019: Postdoctoral Researcher @ Center for Theoretical Physics, SNU
  • Astrophysics
    • Gravitational lensing of gravitational waves
• May. 2016 - May. 2019: Postdoctoral Researcher @ National Supercomputing Center, KISTI
  • Astrophysics
    • Development of numerical code for relativistic astrophysics and cosmology
    • Splitting formalisms in general relativity
    • General relativistic perturbation theory
    • Development of SOGRO and its gravitational wave astronomy
  • Supercomputing
    • Code optimization and parallelization support for supercomputer users
    • Supercomputer user education
    • Nurion beta testing

Publications

• Jan. 2022: Extending the Observational Frequency Range for Gravitational Waves in a Pulsar Timing Array, The Astrophysical Journal
• Jun. 2021: Detection of gravitational waves by light perturbation, The European Physical Journal C
• Feb. 2021: Neutron star structure in Hořava-Lifshitz gravity, Physical Review D
• Feb. 2021: The Horizon Run 5 Cosmological Hydrodynamical Simulation: Probing Galaxy Formation from Kilo- to Gigaparsec Scales, The Astrophysical Journal
• Jan. 2021: Observation of gravitational waves by light polarization, The European Physical Journal C

Awards

• Nov. 2020: Best Presentation Award in AAPPS-DACG Workshop on Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravitation
  • Awarding Body: AAPPS-DACG
• May. 2019: Outstanding Employee Award in KISTI
  • Awarding Body: KISTI
• Sep. 2013: First Prize in Korea Supercomputing Challenge
  • Awarding Body: Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, Republic of Korea Government
• Oct. 2012: First Prize in Supercomputing Challenge
  • Awarding Body: KISTI

Funded Research Project

• Jun. 2018 - May. 2021: Theoretical Fundamental Study on Principles of Superconducting Low-frequency Gravitational-wave Telescope
  • Grant: Basic Science Research Program by NRF
  • Budget: 50 million KRW(~ 45 thousand USD) per year
  • Role: Director
• Mar. 2017 - Dec. 2017: Pilot Study for the Development of Superconducting Low-frequency Gravitational-wave Telescope
  • Grant: Convergence Pilot Study by NST
  • Budget: 200 million KRW(~ 180 thousand USD)
  • Role
    • Participating researcher
    • Research on SOGRO for detectability of stochastic gravitational wave background.