Kwang Je Kim

Kwang-Je Kim was trained as an elementary particle theorist, but switched to accelerator physics in 1978, when he joined LBNL, serving as the Deputy Director of the Center for Beam Physics. He moved to ANL in 1998, where he founded the Argonne Accelerator Institute. Currently, he is an Argonne Distinguished FellowandaProfessor of Physics at the University of Chicago. He performed groundbreaking research in synchrotron radiation and free-electron lasers, both in high-gain amplifiers and low-gain oscillators. He published >300 papers and a book Synchrotron Radiation and Free Electron Lasers(Cambridge University Press, 2017) in collaboration with two other authors. He became an APS Fellow in 1995, received the International FEL Award in 1997, the USPAS Award in 2013, and the Robert Wilson Prize in 2014.