{"id":2345,"date":"2024-04-15T15:40:56","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T22:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/defectlab\/?page_id=2345"},"modified":"2026-03-29T13:39:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T20:39:44","slug":"sage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/defectlab\/people\/sage\/","title":{"rendered":"Sage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"uds-person-profile is-style-large fill-white\" style=\"\"><div class=\"profile-img-container\"><div class=\"profile-img-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/defectlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-27-at-3.50.14-PM-150x150.png\" class=\"profile-img\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"person\"><div class=\"person-name\"><h3 class=\"person-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/defectlab\/people\/vanessa-woo\">Serim (Sage) Kwak<\/a><\/h3><\/div><div class=\"person-profession\"><h4><span>PhD Student Materials Science and Engineering<\/span><\/h4><\/div><ul class=\"person-contact-info\"><li><a href=\"mailto:skwak123@asu.edu\" aria-label=\"Mail to: skwak123@asu.edu\" data-ga-event=\"link\" data-ga-action=\"click\" data-ga-name=\"onclick\" data-ga-type=\"internal link\" data-ga-region=\"main content\" data-ga-section=\"Serim (Sage) Kwak\" data-ga=\"skwak123@asu.edu\">skwak123@asu.edu<\/a><\/li><\/ul><div><p class=\"person-description\">I graduated in 2024 with a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Kookmin University in Seoul, Korea. As an undergraduate researcher, I worked on the fabrication and characterization of flexible organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices. After graduation, I joined the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials, where I studied aerosol behavior in fluid systems.\r\nI joined the Defect Lab in Fall 2025 and am excited to explore how materials defects influence device performance while continuing to grow as a researcher throughout my PhD journey.\r\nOutside of research, I love spending time in nature, hiking, practicing morning yoga, and puzzling.<\/p><\/div><ul class=\"person-social-medias\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sage-k-31253625a?utm_source=share_via&#038;utm_content=profile&#038;utm_medium=member_ios\" aria-label=\"Go to user social media accouunt: linkedin\" data-ga-event=\"link\" data-ga-action=\"click\" data-ga-name=\"onclick\" data-ga-type=\"external link\" data-ga-region=\"main content\" data-ga-section=\"Serim (Sage) Kwak\" data-ga=\"linkedin\"><i class=\"fa-classic fa-brands fa-linkedin\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":352,"featured_media":0,"parent":14,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2345","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/defectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/defectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/defectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/defectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/defectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/defectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2345\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/defectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/defectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}