THE SEE GROUP

Employment

Current            Professor of Chemistry, Caltech

2017-2025       Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Caltech

​2014-2017       St. Elmo Brady Future Faculty Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

                            Advisor: Andrew Gewirth

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​Education

​2014                Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara

                            Advisors: Ram Seshadri and Galen Stucky

2009               B.S. in Chemistry, Colorado School of Mines

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Honors and Awards

2024               NSF CAREER Award 

2023               Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award

2023               Sloan Research Fellow

2022               EPA Green Chemistry Challenge Award 

2022               Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award

2020               Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering

2019               VW/BASF Science Award Electrochemistry

2019               Beckman Young Investigator Award

2018               ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship

2017, 2018     Research Corporation Scialog Fellow

2017               ECS Battery Division Postdoctoral Associate Research Award

2014               UIUC St. Elmo Brady Future Faculty Postdoctoral Fellow

2013               UCSB Outstanding Service to K-12 Education Outreach Program

2012               NSF ConvEne IGERT Fellow

        

Bio

Kim was born and raised in Colorado and received her B.S. in Chemistry from the Colorado School of Mines in 2009 where she worked with Drs. John Turner and Todd Deutsch at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory on photoelectrochemical water splitting. Following a year at the University of Colorado working with Prof. Gordana Dukovic on zinc oxide nanoparticle synthesis and a year in industry at NuSil Technology working on high refractive index silicones, Kim went to the University of California, Santa Barbara for her Ph.D. She worked with Profs. Ram Seshadri and Galen Stucky on next-generation batteries and received her Ph.D. in 2014. Kim was awarded the St. Elmo Brady Future Faculty Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and worked with Prof. Andrew Gewirth in the Department of Chemistry until the fall of 2017. Her postdoctoral work focused on the solvation structure of active cations in electrolyte solutions in Li-S and Mg batteries.

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Seminars and Interviews

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Links

Kim on Twitter (@echemkim)

Kim on Google Scholar

The See Group on Twitter

PhD advisors: Ram Seshadri and Galen Stucky

Postdoctoral advisor: Andrew Gewirth

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