Director KIM Kihwan

Director Kim received his Ph.D. in Physics from Seoul National University. He subsequently conducted postdoctoral research at Seoul National University, the University of Innsbruck (Austria), and the University of Maryland (USA). Since 2011, he has served as a professor in the Department of Physics at Tsinghua University, where he has led an internationally recognized research program. He is a world-leading expert in trapped-ion quantum science. His research uses the internal energy states of trapped ions as qubits, with quantum states precisely controlled and measured using laser-based techniques. Through the trapped-ion approach, he has significantly advanced the understanding of the fundamental limits of quantum systems and has led the development of key quantum platforms, including quantum computers, quantum simulators, and quantum metrology systems.