Jung-Wook Kim

Dr. Jung-Wook Kim is a Junior Scientist/Postdoc at the Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity department of the Albert Einstein Institute in Potsdam, Germany. His research bridges quantum field theory and gravitational physics, focusing on the dynamics of spinning compact binary systems.

• Education: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (BSc) and Physics (MSc, PhD) from Seoul National University
• Supervisor: Prof. Sangmin Lee (PhD thesis on quantum field theory methods for spinning binary dynamics)
• Career: Postdoc at Centre for Theoretical Physics, Queen Mary University of London (2020-2022); currently at AEI since October 2022

His work involves post-Newtonian effective field theory, scattering-amplitude-based post-Minkowskian dynamics, and applications to gravitational wave observatories like LIGO, VIRGO, and KAGRA. He integrates quantum field theory techniques to model gravitational two-body interactions with emphasis on spin effects.