FACULTY PROFILES

Seonggi Moon

Associate Professor
Physics

Office Building: Physical Sciences Building
Office Room: 121C
Phone: (806) 570-3836
Email: smoon@utep.edu

Bio

Dr. Hiranuma, Japanese-born physicist at UTEP, researches ice nucleation, cloud physics, and precipitation engineering; Texas A&M PhD, postdoc-trained, award-winning educator supporting students and inspiring atmospheric science researchers, globally recognized leader.

Awards and Honors

The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PCASE) Award - National Science Foundation (01/14/2025)

Education

Ph D in Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University (2010)

Publications

Role of Organic Coating and Chemical Composition on Ice Nucleation Potential of Atmospheric Particles in European Arctic (2025), Nurun Nahar Lata, Trung Diep, Stefania Gilardoni, Mauro Mazzola, Zezhen Cheng, Ashfiqur Rahman, Mickey Rogers, Matthew Fraund, Matthew Marcus, Seonggi (Naruki) Moon (Hiranuma), Swarup China.
Multi-seasonal measurements of the ground-level atmospheric ice-nucleating particle abundance on the North Slope of Alaska (2025), Aidan D. Pantoya, Stephanie R. Simonsen, Elisabeth Andrews, Ross Burgener, Christopher J. Cox, Gijs de Boer, Bryan D. Thomas, Seonggi (Naruki) Moon (Hiranuma).
Teaching Science and Engineering undergraduates with a liquid droplet solidification (2025), Alexander Hernandez, Sarah Petters, Markus Petters, Asanga Ranasinghe, Seonggi (Naruki) Moon (Hiranuma), Sanjoy Bhattacharia.

Presentations

Laboratory study on the efficacy of new glaciogenic cloud seeding materials (2025), Volume Pune, India, Seonggi (Naruki) Moon (Hiranuma), Taylor D. Gresham, Ava Sealy, George W. Bomar.
Hydrogen Peroxide Treatment to Study Atmospheric Immersion Freezing Ability of Inorganic Particles (2025), Volume Fort Worth, TX, USA, Seonggi (Naruki) Moon (Hiranuma), Taylor Gresham, Ava Sealy.
Multi-Seasonal Chemical Characterization of Organic Aerosols at Gruvebadet Laboratory (2025), Volume Lecce, Italy, Diego Fellin, Gregory Vandergrift, Swarup China, Zhenli Joy Lai, Nurun Nahar Lata, Zezhen Cheng, Claudio Mazzoleni, Seonggi (Naruki) Moon (Hiranuma), Mauro Mazzola, Elena Barbaro, Andrea Gambaro, Stefania Gilardoni.
Integration of Research & Teaching: Why should we care about external funding? (2025), Volume Canyon, TX, USA, Seonggi (Naruki) Moon (Hiranuma).
Teaching Science and Engineering undergraduates with a liquid droplet solidification tool (2025), Volume Arlington, TX, USA, Alex Hernandez, Sarah S. Petters, Markus D. Petters, Asanga D. Ranasinghe, Seonggi (Naruki) Moon (Hiranuma), Sanjoy Bhattacharia.

Grants

EXAMINING THE INP FROM FL112'S WET SUSPENSION SAMPLES (EXINP-FL112W) (10/13/2025 - 10/12/2026) - Flagship Pioneering
Storm Processes and Cloud-Seeding Impacts on Precipitation, Snowpack, and Runoff in the Lower Ogden and Weber Basins of UTAH (09/05/2025 - 09/04/2026) - The University of UTAH
CAREER: THE ROLE OF ICE-NUCLEATING PARTICLES AND THEIR FEEDBACK ON CLOUDS IN WARMING ARCTIC CLIMATE (09/01/2025 - 06/30/2026) - NSF
Probing ice nucleation ability of soot particles from biomass burning via computational and experimental methods (01/01/2025 - 09/30/2025) - EMSL-ERP

Current/Future Courses

Term	Course	Section	Syllabus
Spring 2026	PHYS 4377 - Undergrad Resrch Probs Physics	22561

Past Courses

No info available.

Course Evaluations

No info available.

Bio

Awards and Honors

The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PCASE) Award - National Science Foundation (01/14/2025)

Ph D in Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University (2010)

Publications

Role of Organic Coating and Chemical Composition on Ice Nucleation Potential of Atmospheric Particles in European Arctic (2025), Nurun Nahar Lata, Trung Diep, Stefania Gilardoni, Mauro Mazzola, Zezhen Cheng, Ashfiqur Rahman, Mickey Rogers, Matthew Fraund, Matthew Marcus, Seonggi (Naruki) Moon (Hiranuma), Swarup China.
Multi-seasonal measurements of the ground-level atmospheric ice-nucleating particle abundance on the North Slope of Alaska (2025), Aidan D. Pantoya, Stephanie R. Simonsen, Elisabeth Andrews, Ross Burgener, Christopher J. Cox, Gijs de Boer, Bryan D. Thomas, Seonggi (Naruki) Moon (Hiranuma).
Teaching Science and Engineering undergraduates with a liquid droplet solidification (2025), Alexander Hernandez, Sarah Petters, Markus Petters, Asanga Ranasinghe, Seonggi (Naruki) Moon (Hiranuma), Sanjoy Bhattacharia.

Presentations

Laboratory study on the efficacy of new glaciogenic cloud seeding materials (2025), Volume Pune, India, Seonggi (Naruki) Moon (Hiranuma), Taylor D. Gresham, Ava Sealy, George W. Bomar.
Hydrogen Peroxide Treatment to Study Atmospheric Immersion Freezing Ability of Inorganic Particles (2025), Volume Fort Worth, TX, USA, Seonggi (Naruki) Moon (Hiranuma), Taylor Gresham, Ava Sealy.
Multi-Seasonal Chemical Characterization of Organic Aerosols at Gruvebadet Laboratory (2025), Volume Lecce, Italy, Diego Fellin, Gregory Vandergrift, Swarup China, Zhenli Joy Lai, Nurun Nahar Lata, Zezhen Cheng, Claudio Mazzoleni, Seonggi (Naruki) Moon (Hiranuma), Mauro Mazzola, Elena Barbaro, Andrea Gambaro, Stefania Gilardoni.
Integration of Research & Teaching: Why should we care about external funding? (2025), Volume Canyon, TX, USA, Seonggi (Naruki) Moon (Hiranuma).
Teaching Science and Engineering undergraduates with a liquid droplet solidification tool (2025), Volume Arlington, TX, USA, Alex Hernandez, Sarah S. Petters, Markus D. Petters, Asanga D. Ranasinghe, Seonggi (Naruki) Moon (Hiranuma), Sanjoy Bhattacharia.

EXAMINING THE INP FROM FL112'S WET SUSPENSION SAMPLES (EXINP-FL112W) (10/13/2025 - 10/12/2026) Flagship Pioneering
Storm Processes and Cloud-Seeding Impacts on Precipitation, Snowpack, and Runoff in the Lower Ogden and Weber Basins of UTAH (09/05/2025 - 09/04/2026) The University of UTAH
CAREER: THE ROLE OF ICE-NUCLEATING PARTICLES AND THEIR FEEDBACK ON CLOUDS IN WARMING ARCTIC CLIMATE (09/01/2025 - 06/30/2026) NSF
Probing ice nucleation ability of soot particles from biomass burning via computational and experimental methods (01/01/2025 - 09/30/2025) EMSL-ERP

Current/Future Courses

Term

Spring 2026

Course

PHYS 4377 - Undergrad Resrch Probs Physics

Section

22561

Syllabus

Past Courses

No info available.

Seonggi Moon

Bio

Education

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Grants

Courses

Course Evaluations