Professor Young J. Kim

iCACGP Commission Member

Professor, Dept. of Environmental Science and Engineering

Director, ADvanced Environmental Monitoring Research Center (ADEMRC)

Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology (GIST), Gwangju, Korea

yjkim@gist.ac.kr

EDUCATION

· Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Colorado State University, 1983

· M.S. in Applied Physics, Seoul National University, 1974

· B.S. in Applied Physics, Seoul National University, 1972

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

· 1999 - Present: Director, ADvanced Environmental Monitoring Research Center (ADEMERC)

· 1996 - Present: Professor, Dept. of Environmental Science and Engineering, GIST, Gwangju, Korea

· 1995 - 1996: Visiting Scholar, Civil Eng. Dept., KAIST, Daejon, Korea

· 1987 - 1995: CIRES Research Associate, NOAA/ERL/ARL, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.

· 1984 – 1987: Senior Research Engineer, Wedding & Associate, Inc, Fort Collins, CO, U.S.A.

· 1974 - 1979: Researcher, Agency for Defense Development, Seoul, Korea

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Air Quality Monitoring, Aerosol Science, Optical Remote Sensing, Global Atmospheric Environment Change.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AWARDS:

- Member, Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution (CACGP)

- Member, The Korean Academy of Science and Technology

- Chair, ACE-Asia Korea Committee

- Member and Vice President, Korean Society of Environmental Engineers

- Member and Vice President, Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment

- Member, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

- Member, American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR)

- Member, American Meteorological Society (AMS)

- Member, The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)

- Member, Korean Meteorological Society

- Guest Editor, Special Issues on Advanced Environmental Monitoring, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Journal, vol. 70 (2001) & vol. 92 (2004)

- Editors (Young J. Kim and Ulrich Platt), Advanced Environmental Monitoring, Springer, 2007

- Minister’s Research Achievement Award, Ministry of Science and Technology, March 2003

- Presidential Service Merit Medal, Office of President, April 2007

Contact:

Professor, Dept. of Environmental Science and Engineering
Director, Advanced Environmental Monitoring Research Center (ADEMRC)

Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology (GIST)

1 Oryong-dong, Buk-gu, Gwangju 500-712

Republic of Korea.

Phone: +82-62-970-3401, Fax: +82-62-970-3404

Email: yjkim@gist.ac.kr

http://ademrc.gist.ac.kr/aqml/