Oh Se-jung is a South Korean politician and physicist. He has served as the director of the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies, the first president of the

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, and the 27th president of Seoul National University.

Education

Oh entered

Kyunggi High School Kyunggi High School () is the oldest modern high school in Korea, located in Gangnam District, Seoul. The school is an all-boys school, and its counterpart is , also located in Gangnam District, Seoul. Kyunggi High School has educated many lead ...

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in 1968 and graduated in 1971. He next graduated from Seoul National University in 1975 with a Bachelor of Physics. Moving to the U.S., he did a combined M.S. and Ph.D. in physics at Stanford University graduating in 1981.

Career

Staying in California, Oh worked as a researcher at the Palo Alto Institute of

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until 1984, in which he returned to Korea to work as a professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy in Seoul National University (SNU). He then worked as a research at the

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from 1987. During this time, he was a visiting researcher and professor at the

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and

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, respectively. Returning to SNU, he was the head of the Planning Lab under the College of National Sciences. He later served as the director of the Multi-Systems Research Center for Excellence of the

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with the last several years overlapping as the director and later vice chairman of the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies. His next position was as the founding president of the

. He left to pursue the president's office at SNU, where he scored highly in the policy evaluation before losing to Sung Nak-in, who became the 26th president of SNU. Oh worked in politics before again applying for and eventually getting the position at SNU as the 27th president. He was inaugurated on February 8, 2019.

Awards

*2003: Scientists Worth Emulating, Korea Science Foundation *1997:

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*1994: Outstanding Paper, Korea Federation of Science and Technology Societies

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Message from the President: Seoul National University recommences its mission as a leading institution of higher education
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