Kim Doochul is a South Korean theoretical physicist.

He was also a fellow and chairperson in the Korean Academy of Science and Technology before becoming the fifth president of Korea Institute for Advanced Study and the second president of Institute for Basic Science.

Kim received his bachelor of science in electronic engineering from Seoul National University in 1970 and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1974 with a focus in statistical physics.

[2] Next he became a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Seoul National University (SNU), a position he held through August 2010.

From July 2010 to June 2013, he was the 5th president of the Korea Institute for Advanced Study.