CV

Contact Information

Name Sang-Shin Baak
Email hekate5210@korea.ac.kr

Experience

  • 2025 - present

    Research Fellow
    Korea University Sejong Campus, Korea
  • 2025 - 2025

    Part-Time Lecturer
    Korea University Sejong Campus, Korea
  • 2024 - 2024

    Postdoctoral Researcher
    University of St Andrews, UK
  • 2023 - 2024

    Visiting Scholar
    University of St Andrews, UK
    • Global Internship Program, National Research Foundation of Korea
  • 2023 - present

    Part-Time Lecturer — Quantum Mechanics, Classical Mechanics
    Unistudy Corp., Korea
  • 2015 - 2021

    Lecturer — Middle School Korea Physics Olympiad
    Private tuition company
  • 2012 - 2013

    Teaching Assistant — Physics 1, 2 / Physics for Non-physics Students / Physics Experiment
    Seoul National University
  • 2021 - 2023

    Tutoring — Quantum Mechanics, Electrodynamics, Classical Mechanics, Mathematical Physics
    Private tutoring
  • 2020 - 2020

    Tutoring — Physics 1, 2 (SNU tutoring program for freshmen)
    Seoul National University
  • 2020 - 2020

    Tutoring — Physics for civil servant test
    Private tutoring
  • 2008 - 2014

    Tutoring — High school Physics and Math
    Private tutoring

Research Interest

  • Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime
  • Analogue Gravity
  • Bose-Einstein Condensates
  • Nonlinear Optics
  • Cosmology

Education

  • 2012 - 2023

    Ph.D
    Seoul National University
    Physics
  • 2008 - 2012

    B.Sc.
    Sungkyunkwan University
    Physics

Publications

  • 2025
    Quantum backreaction effect in optical soliton
  • 2023
    Petrov classification of analogue spacetimes
  • 2022
    Number-conserving solution for dynamical quantum backreaction in a Bose-Einstein condensate
  • 2022
    On the existence of steady-state black hole analogues in finite quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates

Conferences and Schools

  • Mar. 2025 — QSimFP Community Workshop 25, Nottingham, UK. Oral: Number-conserving approach to backreaction in analogue gravity
  • Jun. 2024 — Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetimes Workshop III, Lisboa, Portugal. Oral: Backreaction in analogue gravity: Optical Soliton
  • May 2023 — Analogue Gravity in 2023, Benasque, Spain. Oral: Analogue Quantum Backreaction: 1D Finite-size homogeneous BEC; Poster: Algebraic Classification of Weyl Tensors in Analogue Gravity
  • Oct. 2022 — KPS 70th Anniversary and 2022 Fall Meeting, Busan, Korea. Oral: Quantum Backreaction in Finite Size 1D Homogeneous BEC
  • Jul. 2018 — APCTP-NIMS-KISTI-KASI Summer School on Numerical Relativity and Gravitational Waves, Daejeon, Korea
  • Jan. 2012 — KIAS-SNU Winter Camp, Pyeongchang, Korea. Mini research: QCD and Strings
  • Jan. 2011 — KIAS-SNU Winter Camp, Pyeongchang, Korea. Mini research: Age of Universe
  • Feb. 2010 — KIAS-SNU Winter Camp, Pyeongchang, Korea. Mini research: 1+2 Dirac Hamiltonian

Skills

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Languages

Korean : Native
English : Proficient (conversationally fluent)

Extra

  • 2024 — Co-supervised MSc project Backreaction in an expanding Bose-Einstein condensate, University of St Andrews
  • Dec. 2012 — 6th BK21 Young Physicists Workshop, Seoul National University. One of three main organisers; planned schedule, made reservations, guided participants.
  • Jul. 2010 — 1st SKKU Physics Festival, Sungkyunkwan University. Proposed, organised, hosted, and chaired the workshop.
  • 2010 — Chair of the Student Association of the Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University.