Keun Su Kim
Underwood Distinguished Professor,
Department of Physics, Yonsei University
Director, Center for Bandstructure Engineering
keunsukim-at-yonsei.ac.kr
+82-2-2123-2609
instagram.com/ksresearch_official
2001 – 2005 B. S. in Physics, Yonsei University
2005 – 2010 Ph. D. in Physics, Yonsei University
2010 – 2013 Postdoc, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
2013 – 2017 Assistant Professor, POSTECH
2017 – 2019
Assistant Professor, Yonsei University
2019 – 2024 Associate Professor, Yonsei University
2024 – Present Full professor, Yonsei University
2024 – Present Visiting Professor, Stanford University
Award & Honor
2016 Scientist of the Month, Ministry of Science and ICT
2019 Prime Minister Commendation, Korean Government
2021 Leader Grant, National Research Foundation of Korea
2021 Hansung Science Award, Hansung SonJaeHan Foundation
2021 Minister Commendation, Ministry of Science and ICT
2022 Member, Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology
2024 Underwood Distinguished Professor, Yonsei University
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Our paper on the quantum distance has been published in Science!
Press briefing at the Ministry of Science and ICT (Sejong, June 2025)
Council for Basic Research Promotion (Seoul, May 2025)
Korean Physical Society Academic Award, April 2025
Appointed as an Underwood Distinguished Professor (Yonsei University, February 2025)
Meeting with acting President and Minister of Science and ICT (Government Complex Seoul, February 2025)
Our paper on electronic rotons has been published in Nature!
Press briefing at the Ministry of Science and ICT (Sejong, October 2024)
Our paper on the dark state of electrons has been published in Nature Physics!
Meeting with President Suk Yeol Yoon (KRISS, November 2023)
Selected as a member of Y-KAST, December 2022
Minister’s commendation, December 2021
The first nature paper from our group on the electronic structure of liquid metals was published in 2021!
Hansung Science Award, August 2021
Our paper on the pseudospin polarization of black phosphorus was published in Nature Materials!
Prime Minister’s commendation, December 2019
Our paper on the spectral function of Holstein polarons was published in Nature Materials!
Scientist of the Month Award, May 2016
The first independent research paper from our group on the tunable band gap of black phosphorus was published in Science!
Postdoc at Berkeley Lab under the supervision of Aaron Bostwick and Eli Rotenberg
With my Ph. D supervisor, Professor Han Woong Yeom
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Oct. 26, 2024
Professor Kim interviewed by Youtube 안될과학 on [전자결정 발견]
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Dec 10, 2024
Professor Keun Su Kim interviewed by Ministry of Science and ICT [유투브 B보도]
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Oct 24, 2024
Professor Kim interviewed by KTV on [전자결정 조각]
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Sep. 06, 2024
Professor Kim interviewed by Youtube 안될과학 on [암측전자 1부]
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Sep. 06, 2024
Professor Kim interviewed by Youtube 안될과학 on [암측전자 2부]
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Dec. 01, 2022
Professor Kim interviewed by 연세대학교 물리학과 학생회 on [🙋교수님, 질문 있습니다! Ep.3 | 김근수 교수님]
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Apr. 23, 2022
Professor Kim interviewed by JTBC 국과대표 on [노벨상을 향하여! 기초 과학의 힘]
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Oct. 04, 2021
Professor Kim interviewed by Kaos Science on [실험과 이론 어느것도 놓치고 싶지 않아! 모멘텀 공간의 전자구조를 가장 정밀하게 측정할 수 있는 곳]
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Feb. 03, 2021
Professor Kim interviewed by Kaos Science on [반도체의 양자 도약을 꿈꾸며]
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Jan. 09, 2019
Professor Kim interviewed by Kaos Science on [과학자의 생각과 이유를 공유할 수 있다는 것이 대중강연의 매력]
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