The APEC Climate Center is pleased to welcome Dr. Hyung-Jin Kim, a Research Fellow who recently joined the APCC Research Department staff as a member of the Climate Prediction Team. Dr. Kim comes to APCC from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), where he worked as a Research Scientist from 2010 to 2013. Previously, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the International Pacific Research Center (IPRC) at the University of Hawaii from 2005 to 2009. Dr. Kim earned his Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences at Yonsei University in Korea in 2003.

Dr. Kim's area of expertise is regional and global monsoon variability on interannual to centennial time scales. At APCC, he will study climate variability and predictability, with a particular focus on regional and global monsoons in the recent decades of unprecedented warming and in an anthropogenically warmed climate, reproduced in multi-model simulations.

Since 2012, APCC has greatly expanded the amount of its staff and more than 30 talented employees have joined the APCC team, across all departments.