Brian SY Kim

Brian Kim is an assistant professor of materials science and engineering and physics at the University of Arizona. He received his PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 2018 and was a postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia University from 2018 to 2023. He is the recipient of the Outstanding Young Researcher Award (2024), jointly sponsored by the Association of Korean Physicists in America and the Korean Physical Society. He is also a member of APL Photonics Early Career Editorial Advisory Board (2025-26).

His research interests include designing and engineering low-dimensional quantum materials and heterostructures from the atomic level to the system level for a new generation of electronic, photonic and quantum technologies. His group does so using a state-of-the-art device fabrication and characterization approaches, ranging from robotic nano-manufacturing and reconfigurable device architectures to nano-optical imaging. His group mixes and matches these approaches to better understand new emergent phenomena and discover new functionalities in quantum materials.