Screening and Selection

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Screening and Selection

The Samsung Ho-Am Prize is presented each year on June 1st following a highly formal year-long process that includes nomination of candidates, establishment of Selection Committees, screening and evaluation, and announcement of selected candidates.

JUNE ~ JULY
Nomination Forms sent out

Official nomination forms are sent to selected persons at major university, research institutes and relevant organizations around the world.
AUGUST ~ OCTOBER
Submission of Nomination

The Samsung Ho-Am Prize Committee accepts candidate nominations by Oct. 31 of each year by regular mail or email.
NOVEMBER ~ MARCH
Screening and Evaluation

All candidates' achievements are carefully scrutinized and evaluated by the Selection Committee and foreign advisory scholars.
APRIL
Announcement of Laureates

Announcement of laureates are made in media following final evaluations and decisions by the Samsung Ho-Am Prize Committee.

Physics and
Mathematics

Hyeonsik Cheong

Chairman / Professor

Sogang Univ.
Inkyu Park

Professor

Univ. of Seoul
Jinsung Park

Professor

Korea Institute of

Advanced Study
Hyungju Park

Distinguished Professor

Ajou Univ.
Hee Su Park

Principal Research

Scientist Korea Research

Institute of Standards and Science
Fabian Rotermund

Professor

KAIST
Paul McEuen

Professor

Cornell Univ.,

USA
Peter Sarnak

Professor

Princeton Univ.,

USA

Chemistry and
Life Sciences

Byeong Moon Kim

Chairman

Emeritus Professor

Seoul National Univ.
Sunghoon Kim

Professor

Yonsei Univ.
Seok Hee Park

Professor

Sungkyunkwan Univ.
Chul-Seung Park

Professor

GIST
Sven Lidin

Professor

Lund Univ., Sweden
Aaron Ciechanover

Distinguished Research

Professor Technion, Israel
Hyun-Suk Lim

Professor

POSTECH
Jinwoo Cheon

H.G. Underwood Professor

Yonsei Univ.

Engineering

Taeghwan Hyeon

Chairman / SNU

Distinguished Professor

Seoul National Univ.
Dongsik Kim

Professor

POSTECH
Jae-Min Myoung

Dean, College of Engineering

Yonsei Univ.
Eunok Paek

Professor

Hanyang Univ.
Jin-wook Burm

Professor

Sogang Univ.
Yang Yang

Chair Professor

UCLA,

USA
Chenyang Lu

Chair Professor

Washington Univ.,

USA
Krishna Saraswat

Professor

Stanford Univ.,

USA

Medicine

Young-Hyuck Im

Chairman / Professor

Sungkyunkwan Univ.
Jong-Il Kim

Professor

Seoul National Univ.
Kyung-Mi Lee

Professor

Korea Univ.
Dong Won Yang

Professor

The Catholic Univ.

of Korea
Jae-Ho Cheong

Professor

Yonsei Univ.
Lars Thelander

Professor Emeritus

Umea Univ.,

Sweden
Randy Schekman

Professor

UC Berkeley,

USA
Nils-Goran Larsson

Professor

Karolinska Institute,

Sweden

The Arts

Seung-chan Hong

Chairman / Professor

Korea National Univ.

of Arts
Mi-Hyun Kim

Professor

Ewha Womans Univ.
Aeryoung Moon

Dance Critic
Sang Yong Sim

Professor

Seoul National Univ.
Sanghyo Yook

Professor

Inha Univ.
Ilbum Chang

Music Critic
Sun Kyu Ha

Professor

Hongik Univ.

Community Service

Moo-Sung Chung

Chairman / Professor

Soongsil Univ.
Dong-No Kim

Professor

Yonsei Univ.
Dayoung Song

Professor

Incheon Univ.
Do Seon Eur

Professor

Korea Univ.
Jin-yeong Lee

Editorial Writer

Dong-A Ilbo Daily
Daeshik Jo

Secretary General

KCOC
Yong Hyun Jo

Lawyer

Lawfirm Class LLC.

Gregory C. Fu

Professor,

California Institute

of Technology,USA
Michael Kozicki

Professor,

Arizona State Univ.,

USA
Shimeng Yu

Professor,

Georgia Institute of

Technology,USA
Navdeep S. Chandel

David W. Cugell

Distinguished Professor,

Northwestern Univ.,USA
Michael Harris

Professor,

Columbia Univ.,

USA
Xingao Gong

Professor,

Fudan Univ.,

China
Nicolas Gisin

Professor Emeritus,

Univ. of Geneva,

Swiss
Michel Sadelain

Director, Memorial Sloan

Kettering Cancer Center,

USA
Shing-Tung Yau

Professor,

Tsinghua Univ.,

China
Daniel G. Nocera

Professor,

Harvard Univ.,

USA
Ben E. Black

Professor,

Univ. of Pennsylvania,

USA
Andrea Musacchio

Director,

Max Planck Institute of

Molecular Physiology,

Germany
David A. Nicewicz

Professor,

Univ. of North Carolina,

USA
Vijay Rathinam

Professor,

Univ. of Connecticut,

USA
Andrzej Cichocki

Professor,

Systems Research Institute,

Poland
Richard Wade-Martins

Professor,

Univ. of Oxford,

UK
Wilhelm Schlag

Professor,

Yale Univ.,

USA
Angel Rubio

Director,

Max Planck Institute for the

Structure and Dynamics of Matter,Germany
Maria-Luisa Alegre

Professor,

The Univ. of Chicago,

USA
Sara E. Skrabalak

Professor,

Indiana Univ. Bloomington,

USA
Andrew G. Bowie

Professor,

Trinity College Dublin,

Ireland
Michael Devine

Group Leader,

The Francis Crick Institute,

UK
Sarkis K. Mazmanian

Professor,

California Institute of

Technology,USA
Jan Van Deursen

Founder,

Unity Biotechnology,

USA
Eduardo Tolosa

Emeritus Professor,

University of Barcelona,

Spain
Judy Van de Water

Professor,

UC Davis,

USA
Clare Grey

Professor,

Univ. of Cambridge,

UK
Evan Eichler

Professor,

Washington Univ.,

USA
Chao-Yang Lu

Professor,

Univ. of Science and

Technology of China
Terry Rudolph

Professor,

Imperial College London,

UK
Wei D. Lu

Professor,

University of Michigan,

USA
Chi Van Dang

Bloomberg Distinguished

Professor,

Johns Hopkins Univ., USA
Tönu Pullerits

Professor,

Lund Univ.,

Sweden
Jürgen Ruland

Professor,

Technical Univ. of Munich,

Germany
Chih-Jen Lin

Professor,

National Taiwan Univ.,

Taiwan
Henri Darmon

Distinguished James McGill Professor,

McGill Univ.,

Canada
Ngô Bảo Châu

Francis and Rose Yuen

Distinguished Service Professor,

Univ. of Chicago,USA
Carlos E. Kenig

Louis Block Distinguished

Service Professor,

Univ. of Chicago,USA
Ian A. Walmsley

Provost,

Imperial College London,

UK
Cassian Yee

Professor, The Univ. of Texas

MD Anderson Cancer Center,

USA
Inderjit S. Dhillon

Professor,

The Univ. of Texas at Austin,

USA
Kevin S. McFarland

Professor,

Univ. of Rochester,

USA
John F. Hartwig

Professor,

UC Berkeley,

USA
Craig B. Thompson

Researcher,

Memorial Sloan Kettering

Cancer Center, USA