Dr. Dennis S. Kim

Hi! I am currently a research scientist in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and hold a PhD in Materials Science from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and a BS in Chemistry from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (UMass). Prior to my current position, I was a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a STROBE postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCLA. My research is in materials thermodynamics and understanding phase transformation through state-of-the-art scattering, imaging, and quantum mechanical computational techniques. I am also interested in developing and optimizing materials for various applications in thermal, energy, and quantum sciences through a fundamental understanding from the atom up. For more information about past, current, and future works visit the Research page.