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Sun Kee Kim

b. 1960

South Korean physicist

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Born 1960. Sun Kee Kim is a South Korean physicist.

Kim Sun-kee (; born May 20, 1960) is a South Korean physicist. He is professor in Seoul National University and director of the Korea Invisible Mass Search. He was the first director of the Rare Isotope Science Project within the Institute for Basic Science and is a member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology.

Education 1979−1983: BS, Korea University 1983−1985: MS, Korea University 1985−1988: Ph.D. Korea University

Work The three founders of Korea Invisible Mass Search; left to right Kim Sun-kee, Kim Hongjoo, and . Positions held 1988−1990: Research Associate, KEK, Japan 1990−1992: Senior Research Associate, Rutgers University 1992−1996: Assistant Professor, Seoul National University 1996−2002: Associate Professor, Seoul National University 2002−present: Professor, Seoul National University 2011−present: Director, Rare Isotope Science Project, Institute for Basic Science 1995−1995: Visiting Scientist, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory 1999−1999: Visiting Scientist, KEK

Major research activities 1985−1996: AMY experiment, TRISTAN, KEK e+e- collider experiment 1990−1992: E799, Rare Kaon decay experiment, Fermilab 1994−1998: D0 experiment, TEVATRON, Fermilab 1994−2011: BELLE experiment, KEKB, KEK 1996−2000: ATIC, balloon borne experiment, NASA 2000−2011: Korea Invisible Mass Search (spokesperson), South Korea

Professional service activities 1992−1994: Korea SSC committee 1994−2001: Executive board, Belle Collaboration 1996−1998: Investigators Consultative Group between Korea-NASA 1998−2001: Organizing committee, World Wide Study on Physics and Detector at LC 2000−2006: Director of Dark Matter Research Center 2001−2002: Advisory committee, Proton Therapy Center at National Cancer Center 2005−2009: Chair, Association of Korean High Energy Physicists 2006−2012: Committee for the Promotion of Korea-CERN Collaboration, MEST 2008−present: International Detector Advisory Group of ILC 2009−2010: Chair, Particle Physics Division, Korean Physical Society 2011−2011: Steering Committee for Heavy Ion Accelerator, MEST 2012−2014: National Committee for Fusion Research, MEST 2012−2014: R&D Policy Advisory Committee, National Fusion Research Institute

Awards 1991: SSC Fellow, TNRLC 2006: Koshiba Prize, Foundation for High Energy Accelerator Science, Japan 2008: Scientist of the Month, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology of South Korea 2008: SNU Award for Excellent Research

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South Korean physicist

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Sun Kee Kim was born on 20 May 1960 in South Korea.

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Sun Kee Kim is a physicist.

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