Alumni Career Talk with Bokyoung Kim

I was a postdoctoral research associate working with Dr Sergey Koposov at the Institute for Astronomy (IfA) from 2021 to 2024. My project was to analyse the kinematics and chemical properties of a few million stars in the Solar neighbourhood using the DESI Milky Way Survey data compiled with Gaia. Beyond my research, I was involved in teaching and supervising undergraduate students, mentoring a PhD student at the University of Portsmouth, and participating in outreach and DEI activities. After building my research experience at IfA, I joined the editorial team at Nature Astronomy in 2025, currently working as an associate editor. With my expertise in stellar and Galactic astronomy, I am covering almost all the topics within the Milky Way, including solar physics, stellar astronomy, star formation and interstellar medium, and Galactic astronomy and dynamics.