Yongjung Kim - Observational Astronomer

Hello, I am Yongjung Kim, a Senior Researcher at Korean Astronomy & Space Science Institute (KASI) in Daejeon, Republic of Korea. I am currently working in the Space Astronomy Group of Dr. Woong-Seob Jeong at KASI, which is conducting SPHEREx-related research.

Before coming to KASI, I worked at Kyungpook National University (Daegu, Korea) and Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (Beijing, China). I did my Ph.D. in Astronomy at Seoul National University (Seoul, Korea). Please find more information on this page.

I am interested in observational astronomy with quasars along the cosmic time. Specifically, I have been working on their demography and the resultant contribution to the cosmic reionization and ionizing background in the early universe. I am also interested in the formation and growth of the supermassive black holes centered at quasars with their host galaxies along the cosmic time. Please see the Research page for detail.