Kim researches active galactic nuclei using integral field spectroscopy. She requires many skills for her work, including:

• Using and reducing data from the following instruments:
  • Infrared IFUs 
  • NIFS (GEMINI)
  • OSIRIS (KECK)
  • SINFONI (ELT)
  • KCWI (KECK)

• Fits file handling (3D file viewer/qfitsview)
  • Including scripting in qfitsview
• Handling data cubes
• Visualisation (VEUSE)
• Scientific writing (LaTeX)
• Tabular data (Excel)
• IDL packages (data reduction for keck cosmic web imager, osiris IFU)
• IRAF for data reduction 
• Using packages such as galfit, discfit
• VLT data reduction pipelines / ESO pipelines
• Stellar population modelling (ppxf+starlight)