Young-Kee Kim
Department of Physics and Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago
Research Focus
Research Interests
About Young-Kee
Young-Kee Kim is Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor, Chair of the Department of Physics, and Senior Advisor to the Provost on Global Scientific Initiatives at the University of Chicago. As an experimental particle physicist, she has devoted to understanding the origin of mass for elementary particles by studying two of the most massive particles (W boson and top quark), and Higgs that gives mass to elementary particles. Between 2004 and 2006, she co-led Tevatron’s CDF experiment, a collaboration with 600 physicists from around the world. Between 2006 and 2013, she was Deputy Director of Fermilab. She is currently working on the ATLAS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider and accelerator physics. She was born in South Korea, and earned her BS and MS from Korea University, in 1984 and 1986, and her Ph.D. from University of Rochester in 1990. After postdoctoral research at Berkeley Laboratory, she became Professor of Physics at UC Berkeley. In 2003, she moved to U.Chicago.
Honors
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow of the American Physical Society
Fellow of the Sloan Foundation
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Recipient of the Ho-Am Prize
Recipient of the University of Rochester’s Distinguished Scholar Medal|Recipient of Korea University’s Alumni Award
Recipient of the Women in Science Leadership Award from the Chicago Council of Science and Technology
Education
Postdoc
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 10/1990 - 06/1996
Ph.D.
Particle Physics, University of Rochester, 09/1990
Master's
Physics, Korea University, 02/1984
Bachelor's
Physics, Korea University, 02/1980
