Department of Mathematics
Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
77 Cheongam-Ro, Nam-Gu
Pohang, Gyeongsangbuk, Korea 37673
E-mail: younjinkim at postech dot ac dot kr
mathyounjinkim at gmail dot com
Extremal combinatorics: Extremal set theory, Extremal graph and hypergraph theory, probabilistic and algebraic methods in combinatorics, additive combinatorics.
2025/02 ~ Current, Collegiate Associate Professor, POSTECH, Pohang, South Korea
2024/02 ~ 2025/01, Collegiate Assistant Professor, POSTECH, Pohang, South Korea
2023/03 ~ 2024/01, Senior Researcher, IBS ECOPRO, Daejeon, South Korea
2021/12 ~ 2023/02, Postdoctoral Researcher, POSTECH, Pohang, South Korea
2015/12 ~ 2021/11, Research Professor, IMS, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
2015/09 ~ 2015/11, Postdoctoral Researcher, IMS, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
2012/09 ~ 2015/08, Postdoctoral Researcher, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea
2012/01 ~ 2012/05, Researcher, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA
2011.12 Ph.D. in Department of Mathematics at University of Illinois at Urbana and Champaign, Illinois, USA (Advisor: Zoltan Furedi)
2022/06 ~ 2023/02, Creative Challenge Research Program, National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
$ 70,000 (7천만원) for 1 years
2017/06 ~ 2022/05, President Post-Doc Fellowship, National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
$ 650,000 (6억 5천만원) for 5 years
2013/06 ~ 2016/05, Basic research program, National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
$150,000 (1억 5천만원) for 3 years
Organizer, One day Meeting on Extremal Combinatorics 2020, Ewha Womans University, January 4, 2020.
Organizer, 2019-1 IBS Workshop on Graph Theory, IBS, Daejeon, February 11-12, 2019.
Organizer, One day Meeting on Extremal Combinatorics 2019, Ewha Womans University, January 5, 2019.
Supporting Organizer, 17th Japan-Korea Workshop on Algebra and Combinatorics, University of Tsukuba, Tokyo, Japan, Jan 28 -29, 2019
Supporting Organizer, 16th Korea-Japan Workshop on Algebra and Combinatorics, Yeungnam Universtiy, Korea, Feb 8-10, 2018
Organizer, 2018 International Workshop on Graph Theory, Ewha Womans University, January 4-7, 2018
Organizer, 2016 International Workshop on Graph Theory and Combinatorics, Ewha Womans University, January 28-30, 2016
Supporting Organizer, 14th Korea-Japan Workshop on Algebra and Combinatorics, Pusan National Universtiy, January 28-30, 2016
Organizer, KAIST Discrete Math Seminar, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, September 2013 - August 2014
Organizer, 2014 KAIST CMC Discrete Math Workshop, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, December 10-12 2014
Organizer, 12th Korea-Japan Workshop on Algebra and Combinatorics, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, January 23-25 2014
2017.06.01: President Post-Doc Fellowship, June 2017- May 2022.
(총 수여 금액 : 6억 5천만원, by 한국연구재단)
2014.10.25: WISET-KMS Young Women Excellent Research Award
Conference Travel Award for Graduate Students, October 2010 (by UIUC)
Korea Science and Engineering Foundation fellowship, 2004/08 ~ 2006/07
University of Illinois Fellowship, Summer 2005, Spring 2005, Fall 2004 (by UIUC)