Ji-Hee Kim, Bio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: 

     Associate Professor (2024 - present)

                Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Busan, 46241, Republic of Korea

     Assistant Professor (2023 - 2024)

     Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Busan, 46241, Republic of Korea

Assistant Professor (2019 - 2023)

Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Republic of Korea

     Team leader and Cooperative Professor (2017-2023)

Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics, Institute for Basic Science, Suwon, Republic of Korea

Research Professor (2013 - 2019)

Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics (CINAP), Suwon, Republic of Korea

• Femtosecond carrier dynamics in 2D materials and other nanomaterials

• Multiparticle interactions in nanomaterials (ex. carrier multiplication, singlet fission)

• Nonlinear and ultrafast optical properties in solids

• Correlation nanoscopy using femtosecond laser

• Beyond Shockley-Queisser limit for ultimate 2D vdW solar cells 

• 2D optoelectronic device

Postdoctoral Research Associate (2011 - 2013)

      National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, FL USA

      Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX USA

Advisor: prof. Junichiro Kono

• Many-body processes of 2D excitons in high magnetic field

• Magneto-optics in quantum well structures

• Coherent phonon spectroscopy in carbon nanotubes and graphene

• Ultrafast carrier dynamics in carbon nanotubes and graphene

EDUCATION:

Ph. D. (2011)

Dept. of Physics, Chungnam National University

Advisor: Prof. Ki-Ju Yee

• Development of novel femtosecond time-resolved spectroscopy and super-sensitive Raman techinique

• Dissertation Title: Coherent Phonon Oscillations and Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in Graphitic Materials

M. S. (2007)

Dept. of Physics, Chungnam National University

Advisor: Prof. Ki-Ju Yee

• Control and analysis of electronic and chiral structure of nanomaterials by using femtosecond laser technique

• Thesis Title: Chirality-Assignment and Chirality-Selective Excitation methods in Single-walled Carbon nanotubes by using Femtosecond Pulse Laser

B. S. (2005)

Dept. of Physics, Chungnam National University

Major: Physics

AWARDS:

2015     WISET-IEIE Young Women Researcher Award

2008     National Research Fellowship for Science and Engineering Graduates

2008     Best Poster Award, Asian Magnetics Conference

2007     Natioanl Research Fellowship for Science and Engineering Graduates 

2006     Best Presentation Award, Korean Physical Society

2005     Graduate Student Research Enhancement Award, Chungnam National University

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES:

Editorial Board  Member

  Applied Sciences (IF 2.679 (2020), ISSN 2076-3417)

Solar (IF is not released yet.) 

Reviewer Board  Member

  Nanomaterials (IF 5.076 (2020))