Young-Kee Kim

Young-Kee Kim is the Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, affiliated with the Department of Physics, Enrico Fermi Institute, and College of Physical Science. She serves as Senior Advisor to the Provost for Global Scientific Initiatives, enhancing the University’s international scientific footprint.

• Research focus: understanding the origin of mass in fundamental particles (W boson, top quark, Higgs boson).
• Principal Investigator (PI) of the University’s accelerator research group.
• Current work on the ATLAS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
• Co-led the CDF experiment at Fermilab’s Tevatron (2004–2006) and served as Fermilab Deputy Director (2006–2013).

She champions equity, diversity, and inclusion in physics as co-chair of the Physical Sciences Division’s EDICT team. Her career has been shaped by international collaboration, which she emphasizes as critical for large-scale particle physics projects. Awards include recognition in Discover Magazine (2000) and Crain's Chicago Business (2008).