Research Interests:
•My goal is to characterize molecular and neuronal correlates of long-
term plasticity in the olfactory system of the nematode C. elegans.
Education & Experience:
2006-Present: Postdoctoral fellow in Organismic & Evolutionary Biology and
Physics, Harvard University. Advisors: Dr. Yun Zhang (OEB) and Dr. Aravi
Samuel (Physics).
2005-2006: Postdoctoral fellow in Physics, Harvard University.
Advisor: Dr. Jenny Hoffman (Physics), Variable Temperature-Scanning
Tunneling Microscopy (VT-STM).
2004: Research fellow in Physics, Boston College. Advisor: Dr. M. Naughton
1998–2004: Ph.D. in Physics, Boston College. Advisor: Dr. Michael Naughton
Dissertation: “Triplet Superconductivity and Interference Commensurate
Oscillations in the 1D Molecular Organic Conductor (TMTSF)2ClO4.”
1991-1998: M.S. (1998) and B.S. (1995) in Physics, Ewha Womans University,
Seoul, South Korea.
Publications:
Luo L, Gabel CL, Ha HI, Zhang Y & Samuel ADT (2008). Olfactory behavior
of swimming C. elegans analyzed by measuring motile responses to
temporal variations of odorants. J Neurophysiol 99, 2617-2625.
Ha HI, Oh JI, Moser J, Naughton MJ. Triplet superconductivity via tunneling in
the molecular organic conductor (TMTSF)2ClO4. manuscript in preparation.
Ha HI, Lebed AG, Naughton MJ. In-plane anisotropy of the upper critical field
in (TMTSF)2ClO4. manuscript in preparation.
Ha HI, Lebed AG, Naughton MJ (2006). Interference effects due to
commensurate electron trajectories and topological crossovers in (TMTSF)
2ClO4 Physical Review B 73: 033107.
Lebed AG, Ha HI, Naughton MJ (2005). Angular magnetoresistance
oscillations in organic conductors. Physical Review B 71: 132504.
Ha HI, Oh JI, Moser J, Naughton MJ (2003). Zero bias conductance peak in
an SNS weak link bicrystal of the triplet superconductor (TMTSF)2ClO4.
Synthetic Metals 137: 1215-1216.
Wang DZ, Ha HI, Oh JI, Moser J, Wen JG, Naughton MJ, Ren ZF (2003).
Synthesis and properties of superconductor RuSr2GdCu2O8. Physica C
384: 137-142 (2003).
Kempa K, Zhou Y, Engelbrecht JR, Bakshi P, Ha HI, Moser J, Naughton MJ,
Ulrich J, Strasser G, Gornik E, Unterrainer K (2002). Intersubband
transport in quantum wells in strong magnetic fields mediated by single- and
two-electron scattering. Physical Review Letters 88: 226803.
Wang DZ, Ha HI, Yang SX, Oh JI, Wen JG, Naughton MJ, Ren ZF (2001).
Synthesis and characterization of heavily overdoped Tl2Ba2CuO6+d thin
films. Physica C 355: 251-256.
Ramakrishnan S, Patil NG, Kang W, Ha HI, Kim YS, Takeuchi T, Miyako Y,
Menovsky AA, Nieuwenhuys GJ, Mydosh JA (2001). Magnetism of Nd3+
ions in Nd5Rh4Sn10. Physical Review B 63: 184402.
Ha HI, Kang W, Fabre JM (1999). Reconstruction of Fermi surface of (TMTSF)
2NO3. Synthetic Metals 103: 2117.
Kang W, Park H, Ha HI, Koo SY (1997). Observation of non-trivial quantum
Hall effect. Synthetic Metals 85: 1529.
Additional Interests:
violin
Hometown:
Seoul, Korea
Heon-Ick Ha
Ph.D. Boston College
Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology
Department of Physics
Center for Brain Science
Harvard University
17 Oxford St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-495-1018
hahe (at) physics.harvard.edu
