Honggeun Kim

Honggeun started his graduate studies at MIT in the fall of 2017. He received his B.S./M.S. degrees at Yonsei University in South Korea. During his master’s degree, Honggeun studied the torus of Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN). At MIT, he is working with Professor Jacqueline Hewitt on radio interferometry and cosmology. Specifically, the group is building and using a telescope, the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA), to investigate cosmic dawn and the epoch of reionization (EoR). The goal of the team is to figure out HI structures of early Universe, how and when the EoR started and ended, and ultimately the evolution of first stars/galaxies and universe.