Kwang-Je Kim

Professional Experience

• 2007- Present, Chief Scientist, Argonne Accelerator Institute
• 2006-2007, Director of Argonne Accelerator Institute
• 2000- Present Professor (part-time) of Physics, The Univ. of Chicago
• 1998-2000 Visiting Professor (part-time) of Physics, The Univ. of Chicago
• 1990-1998 Deputy Head, Center of Beam Physics, Lawrence Berkeley Lab.
• 1986-1998 Senior Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley Lab.
• 1978-1986 Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley Lab.
• 1975-1978 Assistant Professor, University of Mainz

Education

• Postdoctoral training: SLAC (1970-73), Max-Planck Institute for Physics (1973-75)
• Ph. D, Physics, University of Maryland, 1970
• B.S, Physics, Seoul National University, 1966

Professional Activities

• Associate Editor (Beam Physics Division) of Physical Review Letters (1998-2001).
• Teaching at University of Chicago Chairman of the International Workshop on Future Light Sources (Argonne, USA, April 6-9, 1999; Spring 8, Japan, May 1-4, 2002; DESY, Hamburg, May 15-19, 2006).
• Chair of the Argonne Theory Institute on Production of Bright Electron beams (September, 22-26, 2003) on Pushing the Limits of RF Superconductivity (September 22-24, 2004).
• President, Association of Korean Physicists in America (2002).
• Chair of International FEL Conference (2002).
• Chair of the Advisory Committee Board for the FNAL-NIU Photo-Cathode Laboratory since June 2001.
• Co-chair of working group “Beam Dynamics” during the Snow Mass Workshop 2001 (June 2001).
• Co-Chair of the Beam Dynamics Working Group at the Snowmass Workshop (July 2001).
• Chair of the International FEL Prize Committee since September 2000.
• Lecturer at United Nations University - KEK post graduate school of synchrotron radiation (1996), to promote the synchrotron radiation research in developing countries.
• Lecturer at First ICFA School of Synchrotron Radiation Sources at International Center for Theoretical Physics(1990), Trieste, Italy, to promote the synchrotron radiation research in developing countries.

Professional Accomplishments

• 2006: Developed an exact scheme for transverse-to-longitudinal emittance exchange
• 2005: Developed a theory of Smith-Purcell free electron laser in collaboration with Vinit Kumar
• 2003: Developed a theory for flat beam generation
• 2002: Developed a theory on micro-bunching instability and its iterative solution
• 2000: Developed the theory of ionization cooling of muon beams
• 1994: Invented a novel method to generate femtosecond x-ray beams via 90 degree Thomson scattering of electron beams with laser beams
• 1989: Developed the first theory of the RF photocathode guns
• 1986: Developed the first theory for the self-amplified-spontaneous emission in high-gain free electron lasers
• 1985: Invented the crossed undulator for variably polarized synchrotron radiation
• 1985: Developed the phase space method of synchrotron radiation optics based on the Wigner function

Awards

• Argonne Distinguished Fellow (the highest scientific grade in Argonne ), 2003
• International Free Electron Laser Award, 1997
• Fellow of American Physical Society, 1995

Selected Publications (out of about 200 total)

• K.-J. V. Kumar and K.-J. Kim, An Analysis of Smith-Purcell Free-Electron Lasers, Physical Review E 73, 026501 (2006)
• P. Emma, Z. Huang, and K.-J. Kim, and Ph. Piot, Transverse–to-longitudinal emittance exchange to improve performance of high-gain free electron lasers, Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 9, 100702 (2006)
• K.-J. Kim, "Round-to-flat transformation of angular-momentum-dominated beams," PRST-AB, 6, 104002 (2003)
• Z. Huang and K.-J. Kim, " Formulas for Coherent Synchrotron Radiation Microbunching in a Bunch Compressor Chicane," PRST-AB, 5, 074401 (2002).
• C.X. Wang and K.-J. Kim, " Linear Theory of Ionization Cooling in 6D Phase Space," Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 184801 (2002).
• K.-J. Kim and C.x. Wang, Formulae for Transverse Ionization Cooling in Solenoidal Focusing Channels, Phys. Rev. Lett ., 85, 760 (2000).
• K.-J. Kim, RF and Space Charge Effects in Laser-Driven RF Electron Guns, Nucl. Instrum. Methods, A275, 201 (1989).
• K.-J. Kim, Three-Dimensional Analysis of Coherent Amplification and Self-Amplified Spontaneous Emission in Free Electron Lasers, Phys. Rev. Lett., 57, 1871 (1986).
• Kim, A Synchrotron Radiation Source with Arbitrarily Adjustable Elliptical Polarization, Nucl. Instrum. Methods, 219, 425 (1984).