Young-Kee Kim
Young-Kee Kim is a South Korea-born American physicist and Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago. She is Chair of the Department of Physics at the university.
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| Born | 1962 (age 57–58) |
| Nationality | United States |
| Alma mater | Ph.D. University of Rochester |
| Known for | Co-Spokesperson of the CDF Experiment (2004-2006) Deputy Director of Fermilab (2006-2013) |
| Awards | Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2017) APS Fellow (2004) Ho-Am Prize (2005) Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Particle physics |
| Institutions | University of Chicago, Physics, Professor |
| Doctoral advisor | Stephen Olsen |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | |
| Revised Romanization | Gim Yeong-gi |
| McCune–Reischauer | Kim Yŏnggi |
As an experimental particle physicist, she has devoted much of her research work to understanding the origin of mass for fundamental particles by studying the W boson and the top quark, two of the most massive elementary particles, at the Tevatron’s CDF experiment, and by studying the Higgs boson that gives mass to elementary particles at the LHC’s ATLAS experiment. She also works on accelerator science, playing a leadership role in NSF's Science and Technology Center, the Center for Bright Beams. She was co-Spokesperson of the CDF collaboration between 2004 and 2006 and Deputy Director of Fermilab between 2006 and 2013. She is Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2017), American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012), American Physical Society (2004), and Alfred P. Sloan (1997). She received the Ho-Am Prize (2005), the Korea University Alumni Award (2012) and the Rochester Distinguished Scholar Medal (2010).
Education
Young-Kee Kim was born and raised in South Korea.
- 1984 B.S. Physics, Korea University
- 1986 M.S. Physics, Korea University
- 1990 Ph.D. Physics, University of Rochester
Work
Young-Kee Kim is an experimental particle physics. She has devoted much of her research work to understanding the origin of mass for fundamental particles by studying the W boson and the top quark, two of the most massive elementary particles, at the Tevatron’s CDF experiment, and by studying the Higgs boson that gives mass to elementary particles at the LHC’s ATLAS experiment.
- 2017 – Present: Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor of Physics, University of Chicago[1]
- 2012 – 2016: Louis Block Professor of Physics, University of Chicago
- 2003 – Present: Professor of Physics, University of Chicago
- 2002: Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
- 2000 – 2001: Associate Prof. of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
- 1996 – 2000: Assistant Prof. of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
- 1990 – 1995: Postdoc Fellow / Research Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- 2016 – Present: Chair, the Department of Physics, University of Chicago
- 2006 – 2013: Deputy Director, Fermilab
Awards
- 2017: Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2012: Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2012: Korea University Alumni Award
- 2012: Leadership Award, Women in Science, Chicago Council of Science and Technology
- 2010: Rochester Distinguished Scholar Medal
- 2005: Ho-Am Prize
- 2004: Fellow, American Physical Society
- 1997: Alfred P. Sloan Fellow
- 1987: Rush Rhees Fellow
Research positions
- 2004 – 2006: Co-Spokesperson, CDF Collaboration at the Tevatron proton-antiproton collider at Fermilab
- 2003 – 2004: Co-Leader, CDF Top Mass Analysis Group
- 2002: Co-Leader, CDF Level-3 Trigger System
- 2001: Associate Head, CDF Run II Detector Operations
- 2000: Associate Project Manager, CDF Run II Upgrade
- 1995 – 1996: Co-Leader, CDF Electroweak Physics Group
- 1993 – 1999: Leader, CDF W Mass Analysis Group
