Profile


Personal webpage-1 (Sejong page)


Personal webpage-2 (Google page)



RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Galaxy dynamics and its link to star formation
  • Dark matter distribution in (dwarf) galaxies
  • Observational radio astronomy
  • Neutral hydrogen (HI) galaxy surveys with the SKA (pathfinders)



RESEARCH PROJECTS:

  • MHONGOOSE ("MeerKAT HI Observations of Nearby Galactic Objects - Observing Southern Emitters") 
  • The MeerKAT Fornax Survey
  • WALLABY ("Widefiled ASKAP L-Band Legacy All-Sky Blind Survey")
  • AVID ("Atomic gas in Virgo Interacting Dwarf galaxies")
  • FEASTS ("FAST Extended-Atlas-of-Selected-Targets Survey)
  • LADUMA ("Looking At the Distant Universe with the MeerKAT Array")
  • LVHIS ("Local Volume HI galaxy Survey")
  • LITTLE THINGS ("Local Irregulars That Trace Luminosity Extremes, The HI Nearby Galaxy Survey")
  • THINGS ("The HI Nearby Galaxy Survey")



QUALIFICATION:

PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics (Mar 2005 - Dec 2009)

Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Supervisor: Prof. W. J. G. de Blok


B.Sc. in Astronomy (2004 Feb)

Department of Astronomy, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea



PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Associate Professor (Mar 2023 - )

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea


Assistant Professor (Mar 2019 - Feb 2023)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea


Daeyang Astronomical Observatory Director (Sept 2021 - Aug 2024)

Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea


Staff Scientist (Aug 2016 - Feb 2019)

Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI), Daejeon, South Korea 


Research Assistant Professor (May 2011 - July 2016)

International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR)

The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia


Square Kilometre Array (SKA) SA Fellow (Oct 2009 - Mar 2011)

Department of Astronomy, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa


Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar (Jun 2009 - Sept 2009)

Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, USA



ADVISORY COMMITTEE:

Expert Advisory Committee on Space Science and Exploration (July 2025 - June 2027)

KASA (Korea AeroSpace Administration)


SOC of 2026 East-Asia SKA workshop in Thailand (Jan 2026)


Co-Chair of 2023 East-Asia SKA workshop in Jeju island (Oct 30 - Nov 3, 2023)

workshop page: https://ska.kasi.re.kr/meetings/easka-2023


SKA-KOREA Project Scientist (Aug 2021 - )


Co-Chair of the WALLABY Science Working Group2 (with Ivy Wong at ICRAR) (June 2019 - )

The Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) WALLABY HI galaxy survey


PKAS Editorial Board (Secretary) (Feb 2021 - )

Publications of the Korean Astronomical Society (PKAS)


KAS Radio Astronomy Devision (Secretary) (July 2021 - Feb 2023)

The Korean Astronomical Society


K-GMT Time Allocation Committee (Apr 2017 -)

K-GMT Science Program


TRAO Time Allocation Committee (Sept 2019 -)

Taeduk Radio Astronomy Observatory (TRAO) 14-m Radio Telescope



RESEARCH VISITS:

Research Visit (15/June/2025 - 31/Jan 2026)

Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO), Jodrell Bank Observatory, Macclesfield, United Kingdom


Research Visit (3/Aug - 11/Aug 2024)

International Centre for Radio Astronomy (ICRAR), University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia


Kavli Visiting Scholar (23/July - 6/Aug 2019)

The Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (KIAA), Peking University, Beijing, China



AWARDS:

Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA) Administrator's Commendation (2024 Dec)

In recognition of Prof. Se-Heon Oh's contributions to scientific research using Square Kilometre Array (SKA) precursor and pathfinder radio telescopes



REFEREES:

Prof. Lister Staveley-Smith

International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR)

The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia


Prof. W. J. G. de Blok

ASTRON (Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy)

University of Groningen

Dwingeloo, The Netherlands


Prof. Elias Brinks

Centre for Astrophysics Research

University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom


Dr. Deidre A. Hunter

Lowell Observatory

Flagstaff, USA