Prof. Hee Young Kim received his Ph. D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 1998. From 1999 to 2001 he was a research associate in the Graduate School of Engineering at Kyoto University. In 2001,he became an assistant professor at Tohoku University. During 1999-2001, he worked on the high temperature deformation behavior of intermetallic compounds. He joined the Institute of Materials Science at University of Tsukuba in 2002 as an assistant professor, and was promoted to associate professor in 2007 and professor in 2014. Since joining the University of Tsukuba, he has expanded his research program into functional metallic materials, with an emphasis on the development of novel shape memory alloys for biomedical applications, high temperature applications, and micro-actuators. Prof. Kim has authored or co-authored more than 150 research publications including 25 papers published in Acta Materialia. He received a Young Researcher Award in 2002, Murakami Young Researcher Award in 2009, and Meritorious Award in 2013 from the Japan Institute of Metals. He was honored as the best faculty member in the University of Tsukuba in 2014.
