Julie Kim-Zajonz received her Ph.D. from the University of Munich, working on high-pressure X-ray
diffraction. She was born in Hong Kong, has Korean ancestry, and grew up in England, Hong Kong, and Los Angeles.
She began working for Physical Review B in 1999, and has been Editor of PRB Rapid Communications since 2002.
As Editor of that section, she handled a wide range of subject areas including semiconductors, metamaterials,
surfaces, nanomaterials, and molecular electronics. She joined the
Physical Review Applied staff in November of 2013.