Kee Hoon Kim

Assistant Professor, School of Physics

Seoul National University

khkim@phya.snu.ac.kr

Tel: +82-2-880-9068

Fax:+82-2-888-0769

 

Education

1994-1998 Ph. D in Condensed Matter Experiments, Seoul National University

1992-1994   M. S. in dept. of physics, SNU

1988-1992   B. S. in dept. of physics, SNU

 

Careers

2008.4-        Associate Professor in School of Physics, Seoul National University

2009.3-2010.2   Visiting Professor, in U. of Tokyo, Dept. of Adv. Materials (Kashiwa)

2003.12-2008.3      Assistant Professor in School of Physics, Seoul National University

2002. 1 -2003.11    J. Robert Oppenheimer Postdoctoral Fellow, LANL

2001. 5 - 2001.12  Director Funded Postdoctoral Fellow, LANL

1999.11- 2001. 04  Post-doc (during required military service) in Dept. of Physics, Seoul National Univ.

1998. 3 - 1999.10 Post-doc in Dept. of Physics, Rutgers University

 

Academic Activities/Awards

Journal Referee of Phys. Rev. Lett., Phys. Rev. B, and Nature Physics etc.

Director funded postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Jan. 2001

J. Robert Oppenheimer postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Jan. 2002.

More than 2060 citations from 120 SCI publications during 1995-2010; h-number 24 in 2010.9

Invited speaker for Strongly Correlated Electron System 05 and 07 ; Advisory board of LT2008

Member of Korean Physical Society, Material Research Society, American Physical Society

 

Research Interest       

Physical properties multiferroic materials in multi-extreme phase space

High magnetic field phenomena of solids

Physical properties of strongly correlated materials

Optical properties of strongly correlated materials

Synthesis and crystal growth of strongly correlated materials

Thermal/electronic transport & magnetic properties of solids in nano-length scale

 

Selected Paper

"Realization of giant magnetoelectricity in helimagnets”, Sae Hwan Chun, Yi Sheng Chai, Yoon Seok Oh, Deepshikha Jaiswal-Nagar, So Young Haam, Ingyu Kim, Bumsung Lee, Dong Hak Nam, Kyung-Tae Ko, Jae-Hoon Park, Jae-Ho Chung, and Kee Hoon Kim, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 037204 (2010)

 

"Observation of a multiferroic critical end point, Jae Wook Kim, S. Y. Haam, Y. S. Oh, S. Park, S.-W. Cheong, P. A. Sharma, M. Jaime, N. Harrison, Jung Hoon Han, Gun-Sang Jeon, P. Coleman and Kee Hoon Kim, Proceedings of National Academy of Science 106, 15573-15576  (2009).”

“Evidence for dominant Pauli paramagnetic effect in the upper critical fields of a FeTe0.6Se0.4 superconductor”, Seunghyun Khim, Jae Wook Kim, Eun Sang Choi, Yunkyu Bang, Minoru Nohara, Hidenori Takagi, and Kee Hoon Kim, Phys. Rev. B 81, 184511 (2010).

“Interplay between Fermi surface topology and ordering in URu2Si2 revealed through abrupt Hall coefficient changes in a strong magnetic fields", Y. S. Oh, Kee Hoon Kim, P. A. Sharma, N. Harrison, H. Amitsuka, and J. A. Mydosh, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 016401 (2007).

 

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