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Kim, Ki-Yong

Kim, Ki-Yong

Professor
Institute for Research in Electronics & Applied Physics
Physics
1201L Energy Research Facility
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EDUCATION

  • Ph.D., Physics, University of Maryland College Park, 2003
  • B.S., Physics, Korea Universit6y, Seoul, South Korea, 1995

BACKGROUND

Professor Kim received a B.S. in physics from Korea University, Seoul, South Korea, in 1995 and the Ph.D. in physics from the University of Maryland College Park in 2003.   Prior to coming to the University of Maryland he was a Director's Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico.

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Postdoctoral Distinguished Performance Awards at Los Alamos National Laboratory (2008)
  • Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Awards, American Physical Society (2004)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • American Physical Society
  • Optical Society of America

Orcid: 0000-0002-8943-8249, Google Scholar

  • Ultrafast optical, x-ray, and terahertz science
  • High-energy density laboratory plasma

$1.6M Award for New Laser System Received from National Science Foundation

Professor Howard Milchberg will lead implementation of upgraded laser system.