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



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


[조선일보 인터뷰] “세계적 실험 장비 갖춰 초전도 비밀에 접근” 김근수 연세대 물리학과 교수



[국민일보 인터뷰] 26세 대학원생, 과학계 100년 난제
풀었다… “한국만 과학자 기피”


























































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










Oct. 26, 2024
Professor Kim interviewed by Youtube 안될과학 on [전자결정 발견]



Dec 10, 2024

Professor Keun Su Kim interviewed by Ministry of Science and ICT
[유투브 B보도]



Oct 24, 2024

Professor Kim interviewed by KTV on
[전자결정 조각]



Sep. 06, 2024

Professor Kim interviewed by Youtube 안될과학 on
[암측전자 1부]



Sep. 06, 2024

Professor Kim interviewed by Youtube 안될과학 on
[암측전자 2부]



Dec. 01, 2022

Professor Kim interviewed by 연세대학교 물리학과 학생회 on
[🙋교수님, 질문 있습니다! Ep.3 | 김근수 교수님]



Apr. 23, 2022

Professor Kim interviewed by JTBC 국과대표 on
[노벨상을 향하여! 기초 과학의 힘]



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]



Feb. 03, 2021

Professor Kim interviewed by Kaos Science on
[반도체의 양자 도약을 꿈꾸며]



Jan. 09, 2019

Professor Kim interviewed by Kaos Science on
[과학자의 생각과 이유를 공유할 수 있다는 것이 대중강연의
매력]