Professors

We study mineral deposits in the Earth's crust and the planet(oid)s. We are particularly interested in mineral resources formed by igneous intrusions and by hydrothermal activities in the upper part of the crust. We study geology such as structures and hydrothermal alterations in the field of ore deposits and prospects. In the lab, we study (1) petrography, (2) rock & mineral geochemistry, and (3) fluid & melt inclusions to reconstruct the ore-forming processes of the economic mineral resources.

• Ph.D., Economic Geology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2011
• M.S., Isotope Geochemistry, Seoul National University, Korea, 2007
• B.S., Geology, Seoul National University, Korea, 2003

• Assistant & Associate Professor, Department of Energy & Resource Engineering, Inha University, 2012-2022
• Lecturer in Stoney Brook University (SUNY Korea), 2020
• Reserach Associate, Seoul National University, Korea, 2011-2012

1. Seo, J.H,; Zajacz, Z. Fractionation of Cl/Br during fluid phase separation in magmatic–hydrothermal fluids. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 183 (2016) 125–137.
2. Seo, J.H.; Yoo, B.C.; Villa, I.M.; Lee, J.H.; Lee, T.; Kim, C.; Moon, K.J. Magmatic–hydrothermal processes in Sangdong W–Mo deposit, Korea: Study of fluid inclusions and 39Ar–40Ar geochronology. Ore Geol. Rev. 2017, 91, 316–334.
3. Seo, J.H.; Kim, Y.; Lee, T.; Guillong, M. Periodically Released Magmatic Fluids Create a Texture of Unidirectional Solidification (UST) in Ore-Forming Granite: A Fluid and Melt Inclusion Study of W-Mo Forming Sannae-Eonyang Granite, Korea. Minerals 2021, 11, 888. https://doi.org/10.3390/min11080888.