Education

• Ph. D. - Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, 2000.10

    Thesis advisor: Prof. Richard M. Martin

    Thesis title: "Density-functional study of molecules, clusters, and quantum nanos-tructures: development of nonlocal exchange-correlation approximations"

• B.S.- Department of Physics, Seoul NationalUniversity, Seoul, Korea, 1995.2

Experience

• Assistant Professor, School of Computational Sciences, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea (2004.4 ~ 2006.7)

• Postdoctoral Researcher (with Prof. William A. Goddard III), Materials and Process Simulation Center, California Institute of Technology, CA, USA (2002.4 ~ 2004.3)

• Postdoctoral Researcher (with Prof. Andreas A. Görling), Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie, Technische Universität München, Germany (2000.8 ~ 2002.3)

Honors

• IPAM fellowship for Mathematics in Nanoscale Science and Engineering, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of California at Los Angeles (2002.9 ~ 2002.12)

• Humboldt Fellowship, Humboldt Foundation, Germany (2001.6 ~ 2002.3)

Research Area

• Molecular electronic devices

• Nanotubes and nanowires

• Theory and methods of electronics structure calculations

Selected Publications

"First-principles study of the switching mechanism of [2]catenane molecular electronic devices", Y.-H. Kim, S. S. Jang, Y. H. Jang, W. A. Goddard III, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 156801 (2005)

"Structureand properties of self-assembled monolayers of bistable [2]rotaxanes on Au (111) surfaces from moleculardynamics simulations validated with experiment", S. S. Jang, Y. H. Jang, Y.-H. Kim, W. A. Goddard III, A. H. Flood, B. W. Laursen, H.-R. Tseng, J. F. Stoddart, J. O. Jeppesen, J. W. Choi, D. W. Steurman, E. Delonno, J. R. Heath, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127, 1563 (2005)

"Excitonic optical spectrum of semiconductors obtained by time-dependent density-functional theory with the exact-exchange kernel", Y.-H. Kim and A. Görling, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 096402 (2002)

"Two-dimensional limit of exchange-correlation energy functional approximations", Y.-H. Kim, I.-H. Lee, S. Nagaraja, J.-P. Leburton, R. Q. Hood, and R. M. Martin, Phys. Rev. B 61, 5202 (2000)

"Density-functional study of small molecules within the Krieger-Li-Iafrate approximation", Y.-H. Kim, M. Städele, and R. M. Martin, Phys. Rev. A 60, 3633 (1999)