The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) is a national research university located in Daedeok Innopolis,Daejeon,South Korea. KAIST was established by the Korean government in 1971 as the nation's first public,research-oriented science and engineering institution. KAIST is considered to be one of the most prestigious universities in the nation. KAIST has been internationally accredited in business education,and hosts the Secretariat of the Association of Asia-Pacific Business Schools (AAPBS). KAIST has 10,504 full-time students and 1,342 faculty researchers and had a total budget of US$765 million in 2013,of which US$459 million was from research contracts.
Zhores Ivanovich Alferov was a Soviet and Russian physicist and academic who contributed significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics. He shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics for the development of the semiconductor heterojunction for optoelectronics. He also became a politician in his later life,serving in the lower house of the Russian parliament,the State Duma,as a member of the Communist Party from 1995.
Peter Agre is an American physician,Nobel Laureate,and molecular biologist,Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine,and director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute. In 2003,Agre and Roderick MacKinnon shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes." Agre was recognized for his discovery of aquaporin water channels. Aquaporins are water-channel proteins that move water molecules through the cell membrane. In 2009,Agre was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and became active in science diplomacy.
Marcos Prado Troyjo is a Brazilian political economist,entrepreneur,social scientist,diplomat and writer. He is currently a Transformational Leadership Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government and a Distinguished Fellow at INSEAD’s Hoffmann Global Institute for Business and Society.
Ewha Womans University is a private women's research university in Seoul,South Korea. It was originally founded as Ewha Haktang on May 31,1886,by a missionary Mary F. Scranton. Currently,Ewha Womans University is one of the world's largest female educational institutes and one of the most prestigious universities in South Korea. Ewha Womans University has produced numerous South Korean women leaders,including politicians,CEOs,and legal professionals.
The National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Korea (Korean: 대한민국학술원),is the senior national organization of distinguished Korean scientists and scholars. It was founded to promote learning and research in all areas of sciences by conferring membership and preferential treatment to those who have made outstanding contributions to the advancement of sciences and learning. The Academy consists of 150 Fellows who are selected by their peers for their contributions to the sciences and education.
The Global Energy Prize is an international award in the field of energy industry which is given for "outstanding scientific research and scientific-technical developments in the field of energy which promote greater efficiency and environmental security for energy sources on Earth in the interests of all mankind".
Science diplomacy describes how scientific exchanges and the cross-border collaboration of scientists or scientific organizations can perform diplomatic functions in the context of international relations. Most often this diplomacy happens as part of scientific cooperation as a means of building relationships between states and within international organizations. Science diplomacy is a process by which states,international organizations and non-state actors represent themselves and their interests. It is a global phenomenon.
Ryoo Ryong FRSC is a distinguished professor of chemistry at KAIST in Daejeon,South Korea. He was the head of the Center for Nanomaterials and Chemical Reactions,an Extramural Research Center of the Institute for Basic Science. Ryoo has won a variety of awards,including the Top Scientist and Technologist Award of Korea given by the South Korean government in 2005. He obtained the KOSEF Science and Technology Award in 2001 for his work on the synthesis and crystal structure of mesoporous silica.
Science and technology in South Korea has advanced throughout the decades. The advancement of science and technology has become an integral part of economic planning in South Korea. Fast-growing industries have created a massive demand for new and more advanced technologies. Additionally,Korean engineers and scientists propose that the advancement of science and technology in partnership with North Korea could help facilitate the peaceful reunification of North and South Korea.
Shin Sung-chul is a South Korean physicist and the 16th president of KAIST. Shin was the first president of DGIST since it changed its form from a research institute to a university in 2011. His main research areas as a scientist are spintronics and nanomagnetism. As of June 2014,Shin is the founding president of DGIST university,Fellow Professor of University of Ulsan,a member of Presidential Advisory Council on Science &Technology (PACST),the chair of Committee for Future Strategy,PACST,and a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS).
Koh Gou Young is a researcher from South Korea studying organ vasculature and lymphatic vessels with an interest in angiogenesis,lymphangiogenesis,adipogenesis,and cardiogenesis. His research has contributed to the publication of more than 200 journal articles,including multiple publications on how Tie2 deficits are related to sepsis,blood-retinal barrier damage,and an imbalance of intraocular pressure in Schlemm's canal which induces glaucoma.
Sukbok Chang is a South Korean organic chemist. He is a distinguished professor in the Department of Chemistry at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He is also the director of the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) Center for Catalytic Hydrocarbon Functionalizations (CCHF). He was an associate editor on ACS Catalysis and has served on the editorial advisory boards of The Journal of Organic Chemistry,Journal of the American Chemical Society,and Accounts of Chemical Research. His major research interest is transition metal catalyzed C-H bond functionalization for the carbon-carbon bond and carbon-heteroatom bond formation.
Cha Meeyoung,sometimes known as Mia,is an associate professor at KAIST in the School of Computing and a chief investigator in the Pioneer Research Center for Mathematical and Computational Sciences at the Institute for Basic Science. Her research focuses on network and data science with an emphasis on modeling,analyzing complex information propagation processes,machine learning-based computational social science,and deep learning. In June 2024,she will become the scientific director of the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy. She has served on the editorial boards of the journals PeerJ and ACM Transactions on Social Computing.
Oum Sang-il is a Korean mathematician working in graph theory and discrete mathematics. He is a tenured professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at KAIST and the chief investigator of the Discrete Mathematics Group in the Pioneer Research Center for Mathematical and Computational Sciences at the Institute for Basic Science. He is known for his work on structural graph theory and in particular for structures and algorithms relating to rank-width,clique-width,and branch-width. He published more than 45 journal papers.
Taejon Christian International School (TCIS) is a Pre-K to Grade 12 international school located in an area known as Techno Valley,a neighborhood in the northern part of Daejeon,South Korea. TCIS is a Three-Programme IB World School and provides boarding care through on-campus dormitory facilities. The school accepts foreign families living locally for work,families living abroad and looking for education in Korea,and local Korean families with connections to foreign culture and education abroad. Taejon Christian International School also plays a partnership role in globalization efforts in the city of Daejeon.
Mi Hee Lim is a KAIST Endowed Chair Professor in the Department of Chemistry in KAIST,South Korea and the Director of the Lim Lab at the Center for MNPC.
Kyung-Ja Ha is a climate physicist from South Korea. She has been a professor in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Pusan National University since 1994 and leads the Global Monsoon Climate Lab (GMCL). Her research interests include climate physics,monsoon dynamics,planetary boundary layer modeling,hydroclimate,and tropical-extratropical interaction. Prof. Ha's work has been cited about 7,000 times,with an h-index of 44 and an i10-index of 153. She served as president of the Korean Meteorological Society from 2022 to 2023,and has been involved in advisory roles at the Presidential Advisory Council on Science and Technology of South Korea(2022~2023). Currently,she is co-chair of the Expert Team on Climate Impact on Monsoon Weather in the WMO/WWRP Monsoon Panel since 2017,executive editor at Climate Dynamics Journals since 2021,and chair of the Local Advisory Committee of the 2024 Asia Oceania Geosciences Society. Through her research and leadership roles,she has contributed to the understanding of monsoon systems and climate dynamics.
