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
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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

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Scientist of the Month, Ministry of Science and ICT
Prime Minister Commendation, Korean Government
Leader Grant, National Research Foundation of Korea
Hansung Science Award, Hansung SonJaeHan Foundation
Minister Commendation, Ministry of Science and ICT
Member, Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology
Underwood Distinguished Professor, Yonsei University

Interview

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Meeting with the Minister of Science and ICT (Chungbuk National Univ., August 2025)




The first plenary talk at ICESS-16 (Berkeley, United States, July 2025)




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



Moderator at KaOS Lectures, March 2018



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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