Kim Sun-kee is a South Korean physicist. He is professor in

Seoul National University Seoul National University (SNU; ) is a national public research university located in Seoul, South Korea. Founded in 1946, Seoul National University is largely considered the most prestigious university in South Korea; it is one of the three "S ...

and director of the

Korea Invisible Mass Search The Korea Invisible Mass Search (KIMS), is a South Korean experiment, led by Sun Kee Kim, searching for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), one of the candidates for dark matter. The experiments use CsI( Tl) crystals at Yangyang Undergro ...

. He was the first director of the Rare Isotope Science Project within the Institute for Basic Science and is a member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology.

Education

* 1979−1983: BS,

Korea University Korea University (KU, ) is a private research university in Seoul, South Korea, established in 1905. The university is included as one of the SKY universities, a popular acronym referring to Korea's three most prestigious universities. The ...

* 1983−1985: MS, Korea University * 1985−1988: Ph.D. Korea University

Work

Positions held *1988−1990: Research Associate,

KEK , known as KEK, is a Japanese organization whose purpose is to operate the largest particle physics laboratory in Japan, situated in Tsukuba, Ibaraki prefecture. It was established in 1997. The term "KEK" is also used to refer to the laboratory ...

, Japan *1990−1992: Senior Research Associate,

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*1992−1996: Assistant Professor, Seoul National University *1996−2002: Associate Professor, Seoul National University *2002−present: Professor, Seoul National University *2011−present: Director, Rare Isotope Science Project, Institute for Basic Science *1995−1995: Visiting Scientist, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory *1999−1999: Visiting Scientist, KEK Major research activities *1985−1996: AMY experiment, TRISTAN, KEK e+e- collider experiment *1990−1992: E799, Rare Kaon decay experiment, Fermilab *1994−1998: D0 experiment, TEVATRON, Fermilab *1994−2011: BELLE experiment, KEKB, KEK *1996−2000: ATIC, balloon borne experiment, NASA *2000−2011:

(spokesperson), South Korea Professional service activities *1992−1994: Korea SSC committee *1994−2001: Executive board,

Belle Collaboration The Belle experiment was a particle physics experiment conducted by the Belle Collaboration, an international collaboration of more than 400 physicists and engineers, at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation (KEK) in Tsukuba, Ibarak ...

*1996−1998: Investigators Consultative Group between Korea-NASA *1998−2001: Organizing committee, World Wide Study on Physics and Detector at LC *2000−2006: Director of Dark Matter Research Center *2001−2002: Advisory committee, Proton Therapy Center at National Cancer Center *2005−2009: Chair, Association of Korean High Energy Physicists *2006−2012: Committee for the Promotion of Korea-CERN Collaboration, MEST *2008−present: International Detector Advisory Group of ILC *2009−2010: Chair, Particle Physics Division, Korean Physical Society *2011−2011: Steering Committee for Heavy Ion Accelerator, MEST *2012−2014: National Committee for Fusion Research, MEST *2012−2014: R&D Policy Advisory Committee, National Fusion Research Institute

Awards

*1991: SSC Fellow, TNRLC *2006: Koshiba prize, Foundation for High Energy Accelerator Science, Japan *2008: Scientist of the month, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology of South Korea *2008: SNU Award for Excellent Research

Selected list of publications

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References

#^www.sciencemag.org Science VOL 317 6 JULY 2007 #^PRL 99, 091301 (2007) Physical Review Letters {{DEFAULTSORT:Kim, Sun-kee Korea University alumni South Korean physicists Living people 1960 births