A summary of my career to date
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Education related to Astronomy and Astrophysics
Dr. rer. nat. in Astrophysics, Kiel University, Germany, 2020 (Magna cum Laude)
Master of Science, in Physics and Astronomy, Heidelberg University, Germany, 2015
Experience related to Astronomy and Astrophysics
ERC Research Fellow & ESA Project Lead, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, UK (Oct 2024 - Present)
Research Associates, National Institute for Astrophysics - Osservatorio Astrofisico Arcetri, Italy (Oct 2023 - Present)
Research Fellow & ESA Project Lead, Department of Physics, University of Warwick, UK (Oct 2022 - Oct 2024)
Royal Astronomical Society Fellow (2022 - Present)
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) Fellow (2022 - Present)
ESA Project Lead, Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria (Jan 2022 - Oct 2022)
ESA Postdoc, Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria (Jan 2021 - Jan 2022)
(Selected) Projects
ERC Global Evolution of Planet-forming Disks (2024 - Present)
JWST - ALMA AGE-Pro disk study (2024 - Present)
JWST JDISC program (2024 - Present)
JWST ERS high contrast program (2023 - Present)
CARMENES scientific member (2015 - Present)
International Space Science Institute Characterization Of Cometary Activity Of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Comet (2021 - 2024)
(Selected) Publications (Full version link)
First Author Publications
The characterisation of water ice in debris discs: implications for JWST scattered light observations, MNRAS, 533, 3, 2801-2822 (2024) Impact of discontinuous grain size distributions on the SED of debris disks, A&A, 683, A148 (2024)
Cometary dust collected by MIDAS on-board Rosetta - II. Particle shape descriptors and pristineness evaluation, A&A, 678, A179 (2023) Cometary dust collected by MIDAS on-board Rosetta - I. Dust particle catalog and statistics, A&A 673, A129 (2023)
Primitiveness of cometary dust collected by MIDAS on-board Rosetta, European Space Agency Report (2022)
Constraining the detectability of water ice in debris disks, A&A 629, A141 (2019)
Impact of planetesimal eccentricities and material strength on the appearance of eccentric debris disks, A&A 618, A38 (2018)
In Preparation
Ice compositions of embedded disks Ophiuchus sources, Kim, Zhang, and Paola et al. in preparation
Water ice detection in debris disks using polarization, Kim, Qi, and Paola et al. in preparation
Towards the Legacy for Debris disks in the infraRed (TLDR), Kim and Kennedy, in preparation
The imprint of planets on the substructures of debris disks, Kim, Roccatagliata, Nealon et al. in preparation
Cometary dust collected by MIDAS on-board Rosetta - III. Roughness calculation and its application, in preparation
Estimates of the detection limits of the dust mixtures in the outer disk with SPICA, in preparation
Co-authored Publications
The η Chamaeleontis Association: Star formation and disk characterization with Gaia/DR2 and APEX/LABOCA, A&A, 682A, 63R (2024) Main results from the ISSI International Team "Characterization of 67P cometary activity", Universe 2023, 9(10), 446 (2023)
Flybys in debris disk systems with Gaia eDR3, A&A 671L, 2B (2023)
The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems IV, ApJ, 966L, 11P (2024)
A giant exoplanet orbiting a very low-mass star challenges planet formation models, Science 365(6460) (2019)
(Selected and recent) Conferences/Workshops etc.
Convenor and Solicited talk, Europlanet Science Congress - DPS 2025, Helsinki, Finland, 2025 (planned)
Review Talk, UK & Ireland Discs Meeting 2025, Hertfordshire, UK, 2025 (planned)
Chairman and Talk, EU-Korea Conference on Science and Technology 2025, Munich, Germany, 2025
Talk, ELT/MORFEO MICADO meeting, Italy, 2025
Talk, PERC International Symposium on Dust & Parent Bodies 2025, Japan, 2025
Convenor and Talk, Europlanet Science Congress 2024, Berlin, Germany, 2024
LOC and Talk, UK & Ireland Discs Meeting 2024, Coventry, UK, 2024
Talk, Dust Devils - Debris Disks in the Sonoran Desert, Tucson, Arizona, US, 2024
Invited Talk and Chairman, The 1st World Congress of Korean Scientists & Engineers, Seoul, Korea, 2023
Talk, JWST Debris disk workshop, Heidelberg, Germany, 2023
(Selected) Supervision/mentoring of Undergraduate/Graduate/PhD Students and instruction experience
Qi Kang, University College London (Jan 2025 - Present)
Fabio Scognamiglio, University of Warwick (Nov 2022 - Mar 2023)
Tim Cordall, University of Warwick (Nov 2022 - Mar 2023)
Azeem Siddiqui, University of Warwick (Jul 2024 - Oct 2024)
JB Morgan, University of Warwick (Jul 2023 - Oct 2023)
The Europlanet Mentoring Programme (Jul 2021 - Present)
Graz space summer school, Austrian Academy of Sciences (Jul 2022)
(Selected) Organisational Activities
Convenor, EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2025, Helsinki, Finland
SOC, EU-Korea Conference on Science and Technology 2025, Vienna, Austria
Convenor, Europlanet Science Congress 2024, Berlin, Germany
LOC, UK & Ireland Discs Meeting 2024, Coventry, UK
SOC and LOC, EU-Korea Conference on Science and Technology 2024, Coventry, UK
LOC, 2023 Early Career Research development workshop, Coventry, UK
Academic Journal Referee
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS)
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan (PASJ)
Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A)
Software
Fortran 90, Python, IDL, Matlab, Octav, IRAF, SQL, TOPCAT, Aladin, VOPlot, HTML, CSS, LaTeX, SPSS