My Credentials

  • Current position
    Yong-Jihn Kim
    Professor
    Department of Physics
    University of Puerto Rico
    Mayaguez, PR 00681
    e-mail: yongjihn.kim@gmail.com
                   yjihn@upr.edu
    Tel.: 787-832-4040 ext. 2045
    Fax: 787-832-1135

  • Education
    -       1985, 3 - 1989. 8: Ph.D., SNU, Department of Physics. Advisor: M. H. Lee
    -       1983, 3 - 1985. 2: MS, SNU, Department of Physics. Advisor: M. H. Lee
    -       1979, 3 - 1983. 2: BA, Seoul National University (SNU), Department of Physics


  • Postdoc experience
    -       1990. 9 – 1996. 7 : Research Associate, Department of Physics, Purdue University                              
    -       1989. 8 – 1990. 8 : Postdoc, Department of Physics, Harvard University                       

  • Professional experience
    -        Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 
    1998, 8 - 2001, 8 
    (Actually, I got a permanent position offer. But I couldn't accept it, because my family was in Puerto Rico. I think Bilkent is an excellent place for doing research. The students are very smart and the administrative support is very good, as well. I was very productive there, thanks to the smart students who worked with me.)

    -        Brain Pool (Invited Professor/Researcher), Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and
    Technology, 1996, 8 - 1998, 8

  • My First Discovery
    -       Novel transition between critical and localized states in a  one-dimensional quasiperiodic system,
            Yong-Jihn Kim, M.H. Lee, and M.Y. Choi, Phys. Rev. B 40, 2581(1989).
            (I still remember the day when I first discovered this new type of transition. I got some fever of excitement and was full of joy which lasted for a          few days.)

  • My Second Discovery
     -      A New type of transition between critical and extended states in one-dimension,
             Yong-Jihn Kim, J. Phys. A Lett. 24, L1339-L1344 (1991).
        (After the first breakthrough, it was rather quick to discover this new type of phase transition.)