Young-Kee Kim is Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor of Physics at University of Chicago. Prior to Chicago, she was Professor of Physics at University of California, Berkeley. She earned BS and MS from Korea University, and Ph.D. from University of Rochester.
She is an experimental particle physicist, co-led Tevatron Collider’s CDF experiment, and was Deputy Director of Fermilab. She is President-Elect of the American Physical Society (APS).
She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a foreign member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology. She received the Ho-Am Prize in Science, and is a fellow of APS.