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Young-Kee Kim
Born1962 (age 62–63)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materPh.D. University of Rochester
Known forPresident of the American Physical Society (2024)
Co-Spokesperson of the CDF Experiment (2004-2006)
Deputy Director of Fermilab (2006-2013)
Chair of Physics Department at U.Chicago (2016-2022)
AwardsMember, National Academy of Sciences (2022)
Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2017)
Ho-Am Prize in Science (2005)
APS Fellow (2004)
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012)
Scientific career
FieldsParticle physics
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago, Physics, Professor
Doctoral advisorStephen Olsen
Korean name
Hangul김영기
Revised RomanizationGim Yeong-gi
McCune–ReischauerKim Yŏnggi
Websitehttp://hep.uchicago.edu/~ykkim/index.shtml

Young-Kee Kim is a South Korea-born American physicist and Albert Michelson Distinguished Service Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago. She is 2024 President of the American Physical Society.

Education

Young-Kee Kim was born and raised in South Korea.

Career

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 chaired the Department of Physics at the University of Chicago between 2016 and 2022. She was President of the Korean-American Scientists and Engineering Association in 2022-2023 and President of the American Physical Society in 2024.

She is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Foreign Member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. She received the Ho-Am Prize in Science, the Korea University Alumni Award, the Rochester Distinguished Scholar Medal, and the Arthur L. Kelly Faculty Prize for Exceptional Service from the University of Chicago.

Work

Young-Kee Kim is 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.

Awards

Research Leaderships

  • 1993–1999: Leader, CDF W Mass Analysis Group
  • 1995–1996: Co-Leader, CDF Electroweak Physics Group
  • 2000: Associate Project Manager, CDF Run II Upgrade
  • 2001: Associate Head, CDF Run II Detector Operations
  • 2002: Co-Leader, CDF Level-3 Trigger System
  • 2003–2004: Co-Leader, CDF Top Mass Analysis Group
  • 2004–2006: Co-Spokesperson, CDF Collaboration at the Tevatron proton-antiproton collider at Fermilab
  • 2013-Present: Theme Leader, Center for Bright Beams (NSF's Science and Technology Center)

References

  1. "The Center for Bright Beams".
  2. "Five UChicago faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences in 2022 | University of Chicago News".
  3. "Young-Kee Kim".

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