Eun-Ah Kim

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Eun-Ah Kim (born 1975) is a Korean-American condensed matter physicist interested in high-temperature superconductivity, topological order, strange metals, and the use of neural network based machine learning to recognize patterns in these systems. [1] [2] She is a professor of physics at Cornell University. [3]

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Education and career

Kim was born in Jeonju in 1975. [4] She graduated from Seoul National University in 1998 with a bachelor's degree in physics, and earned a master's degree there in 2000. She completed her Ph.D. in 2005 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. [3] Her dissertation, Quantum Hall Tunnel Junctions: Luttinger Liquid Physics, Quantum Coherence Effect and Fractional Quantum Numbers, was supervised by Eduardo Fradkin. [4]

After postdoctoral research at Stanford University, Kim joined the Cornell University faculty in 2008, and was promoted to full professor in 2019. [3]

Recognition

In 2020, Kim was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination from the APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics, "for broad contributions to theoretical condensed matter physics, including new conceptual frameworks for interpreting experiments". [5] In 2022 she was awarded a Simons Fellowship. [6]

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References

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  6. "2022 Simons Fellows in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics Announced". Simons Foundation. 18 February 2022. Retrieved 2022-07-04.