Kim, YoungHee
Professor
Geophysics/Seismology
Seismology, Geophysics, & Tectonophysics Laboratory
Office :
Bldg 25-1 Room 513
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+82-2-880-6735
Lab. :
Bldg 25-1 Room 504
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+82-2-885-6130
Email : younghkim@snu.ac.kr
Research Topic
Prof. YH Kim’s research has been directed towards imaging the Earth structure to gain insight into physical and chemical factors associated with internal geodynamic processes. Questions of particular interest include (1) the nature of tectonic processes in tectonically active regions and (2) earthquake mechanisms in stable continental regions.
Education
- Ph.D., Geophysics (Seismology), California Institute of Technology, CA, USA, 2011
- M.S., Geophysics (Seismology), California Institute of Technology, CA, USA, 2008
- M.S., Geophysics (Seismology), Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 2004
- B.S., Physics (Major) & Mathematics (Minor), UC Berkeley, CA, USA, 2002
Careers
- Professor, Geophysics (Seismology), School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 2021-
- Associate Professor, Geophysics (Seismology), School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 2016-2021
- Assistant Professor, Geophysics (Seismology), School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 2012-2016
- Assistant Professor, Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Program in Computational Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 2013-2016
- Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, NY, USA, 2011-2012
Papers
- Jorge C. Castellanos, Jonathan Perry-Houts, Robert W. Clayton, YoungHee Kim, A. Christian Stanciu, Bart Niday and Eugene Humphreys, (2020). Seismic anisotropy reveals crustal flow driven by mantle vertical loading in the Pacific NW. Science Advances, 6(28), eabb0476, doi:10.1126/sciadv.abb0476
- Pascal Audet and YoungHee Kim, (2016). Teleseismic constraints on the geological environment of deep episodic slow earthquakes in subduction zone forearcs: A review. Tectonophysics, 670, 1-15, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2016.01.005
- YoungHee Kim and Robert W. Clayton, (2015). Seismic properties of the Nazca oceanic crust in southern Peruvian subduction system. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 429, 110-121, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.07.055
