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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Atmospheric Science,Remote Sensing |
| Keywords | Climate change, Atmospheric chemistry, Air quality, Atmospheric composition, Satellite remote sensing |
| Honours and awards | 2025: NASA Exceptional Public Service Medal, NASA Headquarter, Washington, D.C., USA 2024: Alumni Merit Award, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA 2024: NASA Group Achievement Award for ACCLIP campaign 2023: Assoc Member, National Academy of Engineering Korea(NAEK) 2023: Yonsei Lee Youn Jae Fellow, Yonsei University 2021: Fellow, Korean Academy of Science and Technology(KAST) 2020: Top 100 Outstanding Achievements in National R&D, Korea 2019: Medal of Honor in Science & Technology, the President, Korea 2018: Contributed Professor in Research & Education, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea 2018: Scientist of the Month, National Research Foundation (NRF), Korea 2017: NASA Group Achievement Award for KORUS-AQ campaign 2016: Fellow, Smithonian Institute, U.S.A. 2014: Grand Prize, Environmental Technology of the Year, Korea Environment Industry & Technology Institute (KEITI) 2009: Citation, the President, Republic of Korea 2008: Citation, the Minister of Environment, Republic of Korea 2003: Citation, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea 2001: Researcher of the Year, Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) 1993: Citation, the Minister of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea |
Current contact address
| Country | Republic of Korea |
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| City | Seoul |
| Institution | Yonsei University |
| Institute | Department of Atmospheric Sciences |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Guy Brasseur | Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Hamburg |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/03/2026 |
Programme(s)
| 2025 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Kim is a distinguished atmospheric scientist and internationally recognized for pioneering satellite remote sensing of aerosols, air pollutants, ozone and greenhouse gases. His research integrates advanced physical and AI-based retrieval algorithms to significantly enhance atmospheric composition monitoring from space. During his stay, Professor Kim will cooperate with the atmospheric community to combine observations of the air composition made from the Korean Geostationary Environmental Monitoring Spectrometer and atmospheric modeling investigations conducted in Germany. |
Publications (partial selection)
| 2025 | Ren, Y. ,…, J. Kim, et al.: Black carbon emissions generally underestimated in the global south as revealed by globally distributed measurements. In: Nature Comm., 16, 2025, 7010 |
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| 2020 | Kim, J. and 80 coauthors: New Era of Air Quality Monitoring from Space: Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS). In: Bull. Amer Meteor. Soc. 101, 2020, E1-E22 |
| 2010 | Lee, Jaehwa, J. Kim, C. H. Song, S.B. Kim, Y. Chun. B.J. Sohn, and B. N. Holben Characteristics of Aerosol Types from AERONET Sunphotometer Measurements . In: Atmospheric Environment, 44, 2010, 3110-3117 |
| 2007 | Kim, J., J. Lee, H.C. Lee, A. Higurashi, T. Takemura, and C.H. Song: Consistency of the aerosol type classification from satellite remote sensing during the Atmospheric Brown Cloud–East Asia Regional Experiment campaign . In: Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, 2007, 1-12 |
| 1997 | Kim, J., C.J. Park, K.Y. Lee, D.H. Lee, Y.O. Kim, H.K. Cho, G.R. Cho, and J. H. Park Rocket soundings of ozone profiles in the stratosphere over the Korean Peninsula. In: Journal of Geophysical Research, 102, 1997, 16121-16126 |