Young-Kee Kim

University of Chicago and President of the American Physical Society. She is an experimental particle physicist and devotes much of her research to understanding the origin of mass for fundamental particles. 

Between 2004 and 2006, she co-led the CDF experiment at Fermilab, a collaboration with more than 600 particle physicists from around the world. She is currently working on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN as well as on accelerator physics research. She was Deputy Director of Fermilab between 2006 and 2013 and has served on numerous national and international advisory committees and boards. She chaired the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society in 2020 when the 2021 Snowmass process was launched.

Prior to her move to Chicago, Young-Kee was a Professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and conducted her postdoctoral research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Sloan Foundation. She is the recipient of the Ho-Am Prize.