Portrait of Donghae Seo

San Francisco · 2026

Donghae Seo

서동해

Donghae “dong-heh”
Seo “suh”

A couple of pronunciation hints:

hae
“head” without the d
Seo
“sun” without the n
KAISTPostdoctoral Researcher Affiliations MoreLess
  1. KAIST Natural Science Research Institute Postdoctoral ResearcherSep 2026–present
  2. POSTECH Department of Physics PhD in PhysicsMar 2021–Aug 2026 BS in PhysicsMar 2017–Feb 2021
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Daejeon, South Korea

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2026

2025

2024

  • Began a research secondment at KAIST following Prof. Gil Young Cho’s move to KAIST.

  • Our preprint on non-invertible duality and spatially modulated symmetry is now on arXiv.

  • Began my alternative military service as technical research personnel.

  • Gave a talk at the University of Cambridge on the classification of topological orders and its applications.

  • Visited the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, from June to July as a graduate researcher hosted by Prof. Robert-Jan Slager.

  • Our work on modular extensions of topological orders is published in Physical Review B.

2023

  • Our preprint on modular extensions of topological orders is now on arXiv.

  • Our work on classifying fermionic topological orders is published in Physical Review B.

  • Presented my work on fermionic topological orders at the KPS Spring Meeting in Daejeon and received an Outstanding Presentation Award.

  • Presented my work on classifying fermionic topological orders at the APS March Meeting in Las Vegas.

2022

  • Presented “Algebraic Theory of Anyons” at Frontiers of Theoretical Physics 2022 in Seogwipo.

  • Our preprint on the classification of fermionic topological orders is now on arXiv.

  • Presented my work on non-unitary modular tensor categories and topological phases at the APS March Meeting in Chicago.

2021

  • Received the BK21 Interdisciplinary Scholar Fellowship at POSTECH. Prof. Hee-Cheol Kim became my co-advisor.

  • Joined Prof. Gil Young Cho’s research group at POSTECH.