Eun-San Kim

Eun-San Kim, a member of Global Design Effort, recently moved from Korea's Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (PAL) to become a professor at the department of Physics in Kyungpook National University in Korea. Ever since he started, he has performed a leading role in R&D for the ILC in universities and institutes of Korea. He organises and leads groups for R&D topics on damping rings, ring-to-main-linac (RTML), beam diagnostics and superconducting RF cavities in Korea for the ILC. He is also a co-leader of the Area System Group for RTML and has worked on damping ring designs and short bunch compressors for the BCD and RDR.

During his time at PAL, he mainly worked on accelerator physics, contributed to raising performances of the Pohang Light Source storage ring, and performed R&D on designs of 4th generation light sources, such as Free Electron Lasers and Energy Recovery Linacs. In addition to this, he participated in the ILC project and joined the R&D groups for the ILC at KEK in 2005 and 2006.

He received his Ph.D in accelerator physics from the Department of Accelerator Science of the Graduate University for Advanced Studies, located at KEK. In 1997, he joined R&D tasks on the beam instabilities and beam-based alignment in the ATF damping ring. After his ATF work, he participated in the "Center for Beam Physics" of LBNL and performed R&D on beam instabilities and beam cooling for muon beams.

"I really hope that Korea's groups will cooperate with international groups more closely in ILC R&D," Eun-San Kim said.

-- Youhei Morita