Youg-Kee Kim
Laboratory Director (Interim)
Young-Kee Kim began her tenure as Interim Director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in January 2025. She is an experimental particle physicist. Kim's research has focused on understanding the origin of mass for fundamental particles using the Tevatron and the Large Hadron Collider. Since the mid 2010s, her research interests have also included accelerator physics. She was co-spokesperson of Tevatron's CDF experiment (2004-2006) and Deputy Director of Fermilab (2006-2013).
Kim served as President of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2024. Prior to this, she chaired the APS's Division of Particles & Fields in 2020 during the preparations for Snowmass 2021.
Kim received her B.S. and M.S. from Korea University, South Korea, and Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory before becoming a professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Kim joined the University of Chicago in 2003 and chaired the Physics Department from 2016 to 2022. She is currently the Albert Michelson Distinguished Service Professor of Physics.
She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Sloan Foundation, as well as a recipient of the Ho-Am Prize.
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