Education

• 2005-2013 : Doctor of Philosophy, Seoul National University, Korea, under supervision of Prof. Jaejun Yu.

• 2001-2005 : Bachelor of Science, Seoul National University, Korea

Employment History

• Mar. 2019 - Present : Assistant Professor of Physics, Kangwon National University, Korea

• Mar. 2017 - Feb. 2019 : Postdoctoral Associate, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA (Prof. David Vanderbilt and Kristjan Haule's group)

• Sep 2014 - Feb. 2017 : Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Toronto, Canada (Prof. Hae-Young Kee's group)

• Mar 2013 - Aug 2014 : Postdoctoral research fellow, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (Prof. Myung Joon Han's group)

• Oct 2011 - Oct 2012 : Student researcher, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Korea

Fundings

• 2020-2025 : Basic Science Research Program (신진연구), National Research Foundation of Korea (Grant No. 2020R1C1C1005900)

• 2019-2023 : Korea Research Fellow (KRF), National Research Foundation of Korea (Grant No. 2019H1D3A1A01102984), with Dr. Subhasis Samanta

• 2019-2020 : Basic Science Research Program (생애첫연구), National Research Foundation of Korea (Grant No. 2019R1G1A1100614)

• 2013-2014 : Basic Science Research Program, National Research Foundation of Korea (Grant No. 2013R1A6A3A01064947)

• 2007-2008 : Seoul Science Fellowship, Seoul Metropolitan Government

Skills

• DFT/DMFT code experiences : OpenMX, VASP, Elk, QuantumEspresso, Wien2k, Wannier90, Phonopy, DFT+Embedded DMFT Functional

• Programming languages experiences : C/C++, Python, Fortran 77/90

• Parallel programming experiences : MPI, OpenMP, OpenCL(1.0)

• Miscellaneous : Experiences in building and managing home-brew linux clusters

Invited Talks

• (Domestic) Apr 2021 : "(Colloqium, online) Twisted quantum world of spin-orbit entanglement", Physics Department, Hanyang University, Korea

• (International) Jun 2020 : Telluride Science Workshop on Enhanced Functionalities in 4- and 5d-containing Materials from Large Spin-orbit Coupling, Telluride, CO, USA (Cancelled due to COVID-19 situations)

• (International) Feb 2020 : "Density functional and dynamical mean-field study of molecular orbitals in correlated solids: an example of deficient spinel chalcogenides", The 60th Sanibel Symposium, St. Simons island, GA, USA

• (International) Oct 2019 : "Dynamical magneto-electric coupling and optical diode effect in Ni3TeO6", The 22nd Asian Workshop on First-principles Electronic Structure Calculations, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

• (Domestic) Oct 2019 : "Playing band string game with space group symmetries", Workshop on Theoretical Study of Quantum Matter, APCTP, Pohang, Korea

• (Domestic) Aug 2019 : "Dynamical magneto-electric coupling and optical diode effect in Ni3TeO6", Workshop on Oxide Heterostructures 2019, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

• (Domestic) Jul 2019 : "Ab-initio dynamical mean-field study of spin-orbital-lattice interplay in correlated oxides and chalcogenides", The 5th Workshop on Supercomputing for Computational Sciences, KISTI, Korea

• (Domestic) Jul 2019 : "Ab-initio dynamical mean-field study of spin-orbital-lattice interplay in correlated oxides and chalcogenides", The 15th Electronic Structure Workshop, KIAS, Seoul, Korea

• (Domestic) Apr 2019 : “Search for Kitaev spin liquid condidates: an ab-initio computational perspective”, Mini Workshop on Exotic Magnetic Phases in Quantum Many-body Systems, Institute of Basic Science, Daejeon, Korea

• (Domestic) Jun 2013 : "Molecular-t2, and molecular jeff states in 5d transition metal chacogenide compounds GaM4X8 (M=Ta,W, X=S,Se,Te) : Recent progress", CFI-CES Workshop, Institute of Basic Science, Seoul, Korea

Professional Services

• Assistant executive editor, Journal of the Korean Physical Society (JKPS), from Jan. 2021. to Dec. 2022.

• As a journal referee : Please check my Publon profile for the list of journals I've reviewed.

• Workshops organized :

  • (Domestic) Sep. 2020 :

  • (Domestic) Oct 2019 : Workshop on Theoretical Study of Quantum Matter, APCTP, Pohang, Korea

Selected Publications

(Links to Google Scholar profile / arXiv search / List of full publications)

• "Mott metal-insulator transitions in pressurized layered trichalcogenides", Heung-Sik Kim, Kristjan Haule, and David Vanderbilt, Physical Review Letters 123, 236401 (2019) (link to arXiv preprint).

• "Symmorphic intersecting nodal rings in semiconducting layers", Cheng Gong, Yuee Xie, Yuanping Chen, Heung-Sik Kim, and David Vanderbilt, Physical Review Letters 120, 106403 (2018).

• “Realizing Haldane Model in Fe-based Honeycomb Ferromagnetic Insulators”, Heung-Sik Kim and Hae-Young Kee, npj Quantum Materials 2, 20 (2017).

• "Kitaev magnetism in honeycomb RuCl3 with intermediate spin-orbit coupling", Heung-Sik Kim, Vijay Shankar Venkataraman, Andrei Catuneanu, and Hae-Young Kee, Physical Review B 91, 241110(R) (2015).

• "Spin-orbital entangled molecular jeff states in lacunar spinel compounds", Heung-Sik Kim, Jino Im, Myung Joon Han, and Hosub Jin, Nature Communications 5, 3988 (2014).

• "Strain-induced topological insulator phase and effective magnetic interactions in Li2IrO3", Heung-Sik Kim, Choong Hyun Kim, Hogyun Jeong, Hosub Jin, and Jaejun Yu, Physical Review B 87, 165117 (2013).

• "Topological quantum phase transition in 5d transition metal oxide Na2IrO3", Choong Hyun Kim, Heung-Sik Kim, Hogyun Jeong, Hosub Jin, and Jaejun Yu, Physical Review Letters 108, 106401 (2012).