Team

Group Openings!

The Picoscale Engineering Group at UF is actively seeking multiple highly motivated graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. Our current interests are in tackling challenging problems in quantum science, semiconductors, and energy applications of societal interest through a combination of advanced electron microscopy and spectroscopy, including atomic electron tomography (AET) and atomic scale quantum mechanical simulations. For more information regarding current and future projects, please refer to the Research and Publications pages. If interested, please email your C.V. and research interests to Prof. Kim. 

Principal Investigator (PI)

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Dennis S. Kim

Assistant Professor 

Electrical & Computer Engineering Department

Email: ds.kim [at] ufl.edu

 

Education

PhD

California Institute of Technology  

 

BS

University of Massachusetts Amherst 

Prof. Dennis S. Kim earned his PhD from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and his BS from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (UMass). Before joining the Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at the University of Florida in 2024, he served as a Research Scientist at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), a postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a STROBE postdoctoral fellow in at UCLA. For further details on past, ongoing, and upcoming projects, please visit the Research page

Professional Experience

2024 – present

Assistant Professor, University of Florida

2022 – 2024

Research Scientist, University of California Los Angeles

2020 – 2022

Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2017 – 2020

STROBE Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles

Awards