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Recognition for the Ennoblement of the Human Sprit in Academics, The Arts, and Human Welfare

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.

  • step1
    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.
  • step2
    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.
  • step3
    NOVEMBER ~ MARCH
    Screening and Evaluation
    All candidates' achievements are carefully scrutinized and evaluated by the Selection Committee and foreign advisory scholars.
  • step4
    APRIL
    Announcement of Laureates
    Announcement of laureates are made in media following final evaluations and decisions by the Samsung Ho-Am Prize Committee.

2025 Selection Committees

Physics and
Mathematics
 

  • Junegone Chay
    Chair
    Professor,
    Korea Univ.
  • Do-Kyeong Ko
    Professor,
    GIST
  • Minhyong Kim
    Director,
    International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, UK
  • Changyoung Kim
    Professor,
    Seoul National Univ.
  • Yongnam Lee
    Professor,
    KAIST
  • Jinhyoung Lee
    Professor,
    Hanyang Univ.
  • Paul McEuen
    Professor Emeritus,
    Cornell Univ., USA
  • Peter Sarnak
    Professor,
    Princeton Univ., USA

Chemistry and
Life Sciences
 

  • Jinwoo Cheon
    Chair
    H.G. Underwood Professor, Yonsei Univ. & Director, IBS
  • Kyung-Jin Kim
    Professor,
    Kyungpook National Univ.
  • Seung Bum Park
    Professor,
    Seoul National Univ.
  • Chul-Seung Park
    Professor,
    GIST
  • Sven Lidin
    Professor,
    Lund Univ., Sweden
  • Aaron Ciechanover
    Distinguished Research
    Professor,
    Technion, Israel
  • Yunje Cho
    Professor,
    POSTECH
  • Insung S. Choi
    Professor,
    KAIST

Engineering
 
 

  • Sung-Bae Cho
    Chair
    H.G. Underwood Professor,
    Yonsei Univ.
  • Dennis Sylvester
    Professor,
    Univ. of Michigan, USA
  • Sung-Hoon Ahn
    Professor,
    Seoul National Univ.
  • Yang Yang
    Chair Professor,
    UCLA, USA
  • Moon-Ho Jo
    Mueunjae Chair
    Professor,
    POSTECH
  • Seonghwan Cho
    Professor,
    KAIST
  • Klaus-Robert Müller
    Professor,
    Technical Univ. of
    Berlin, Germany
  • Woo Seok Choe
    Professor, Sungkyunkwan
    Univ.

Medicine
 
 

  • Suk Woo Nam
    Chair
    Professor,
    The Catholic Univ.
    of Korea
  • Nils-Göran Larsson
    Professor,
    Karolinska Institute, Sweden
  • Randy Schekman
    Professor,
    UC Berkeley, USA
  • Matthew Heiden
    Professor,
    MIT, USA
  • Youngsup Song
    Professor,
    Univ. of Ulsan
  • Sang-Won Um
    Professor,
    Sungkyunkwan Univ.
  • Jae-Ho Cheong
    Professor,
    Yonsei Univ.
  • Kyungho Choi
    Professor,
    Seoul National Univ.

The Arts
 
 

  • Seung-chan Hong
    Chair
    Professor,
    Korea National
    Univ. of Arts
  • Heeduk Ra
    Professor,
    Seoul National Univ. of Science and Technology
  • Eungi Min
    Professor,
    Seoul National Univ.
  • Jeong Houn Son
    Professor,
    Ajou Univ.
  • Yun-Yeong Lee
    Professor,
    Yonsei Univ.
  • Jinsuk Lee
    Art Critic
     
  • Injoo Chang
    Dance Critic
     

Community Service
 
 

  • Do Seon Eur
    Chair
    Professor,
    Korea Univ.
  • Jung Min Park
    Professor,
    Seoul National Univ.
  • Sungkyu Lee
    Professor,
    Soongsil Univ.
  • Seonghee Chung
    Former Editorial Writer,
    The Dong-A Ilbo
  • Yong Hyun Jo
    Lawyer,
    Law Firm ClassHankyul
  • Wonki Choi
    Chairman,
    Korea Association for Culture and Art Education Service
  • Choonghee Hahn
    Former Deputy Ambassador,
    United Nations

2025 Foreign Advisory Scholars

  • Katsuhiko Hayashi
    Professor,
    The Univ. of Osaka, Japan
  • Rui P. Martins
    Chair Professor,
    Univ. of Macau, China
  • Valina L. Dawson
    Professor,
    Johns Hopkins Univ., USA
  • Kaoru Minoshima
    Vice-President,
    The Univ. of Electro-Communications, Japan
  • Liang Jiang
    Professor,
    Univ. of Chicago, USA
  • Ben E. Black
    Eldridge R. Johnson Foundation Professor,
    Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA
  • Guido Kroemer
    Professor,
    Paris Cité Univ. France
  • Richard Wade-Martins
    Professor,
    Univ. of Oxford, UK
  • Vojo Deretic
    Distinguished Professor,
    Univ. of New Mexico, USA
  • Graham R. Fleming
    Professor,
    UC Berkeley,USA
  • Richard J. Youle
    Distinguished Investigator,
    National Institutes of Health, USA
  • Wolfgang Osten
    Chief Editor,
    Light: Advanced Manufacturing, China
  • Noboru Mizushima
    Professor,
    The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
  • Richard Zare
    Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor,
    Stanford Univ., USA
  • Vijay Rathinam
    Professor,
    Univ. of Connecticut, USA
  • Darrell G. Schlom
    Tisch Univ. Professor,
    Cornell Univ., USA
  • Michael Devine
    Clinician Scientist,
    Francis Crick Institute, UK
  • Bill O’Neill
    Professor,
    Univ. of Cambridge, UK
  • David Wineland
    Philip H. Knight Distinguished
    Research Chair Research Professor,
    Univ. of Oregon, USA
  • Michael Harris
    Professor,
    Columbia Univ., USA
  • Wilhelm Schlag
    Professor,
    Yale Univ., USA
  • Raymond Laflamme
    Professor,
    Univ. of Waterloo, Canada
  • Majed Chergui
    Professor Emeritus,
    EPFL, Switzerland
  • Shaul Mukamel
    Distinguished Professor,
    UC Irvine, USA
  • Lorenzo Galluzzi
    Professor,
    Fox Chase Cancer Center, USA
  • Mark Horowitz
    Professor,
    Stanford Univ., USA
  • Sarkis K. Mazmanian
    Luis B. and Nelly Soux Professor,
    California Institute of Technology, USA
  • Robert B. Darnell
    Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor,
    The Rockefeller Univ., USA
  • Mitsutoshi Yoneyama
    Professor,
    Chiba Univ., Japan
  • Shuang Zhang
    Chair Professor,
    The Univ. of Hong Kong, China
  • Stephen D. Bartlett
    Professor,
    Univ. of Sydney, Australia
  • Eduardo Tolosa
    Professor Emeritus,
    Univ. of Barcelona, Spain
  • Terence Tao
    Professor,
    UCLA, USA
  • Stephen A. Boppart
    Professor,
    Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
  • Evan Snyder
    Professor,
    Sanford Burnham Prebys, USA
  • Theodor W. Hänsch
    Professor,
    Ludwig Maximilian Univ. of Munich, Germany
  • Shingo Kajimura
    Professor,
    Harvard Medical School, USA
  • Jürgen Ruland
    Professor,
    Technical Univ. of Munich, Germany
  • Pavan Hanumolu
    Professor,
    Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
  • Shing-Tung Yau
    Professor,
    Tsinghua Univ., China
  • Yun Chiu
    Erik Jonsson Distinguished
    Professor,
    Univ. of Texas, USA
  • Francisco J. Quintana
    Professor,
    Harvard Medical School, USA
  • Aydogan Ozcan
    Chancellor’s Professor,
    UCLA, USA
  • Ngô Bảo Châu
    Francis and Rose Yuen Distinguished Service Professor,
    Univ. of Chicago, USA
  • Franco Maloberti
    Professor Emeritus,
    Univ. of Pavia, Italy
  • Andrea Musacchio
    Director,
    Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Germany
  • Jean-Marc Triscone
    Professor,
    Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland
  • Peter de Groot
    Scientist Emeritus,
    Zygo Corporation, USA
  • Alfonso Araque
    Professor,
    Univ. of Minnesota, USA
  • Jack Thorne
    Kuwait Professor,
    Univ. of Cambridge, UK
  • Peter Lodahl
    Professor,
    Univ. of Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Henri Darmon
    Distinguished James McGill Professor,
    McGill Univ., Canada
  • Jonathan Kipnis
    Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor,
    Washington Univ., USA
  • Peter E. Andersen
    Senior Researcher,
    Technical Univ. of Denmark, Denmark
  • Andrew G. Bowie
    Professor,
    Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
  • Karl Jansen
    Director,
    DESY-Center for Quantum Technologies and Applications, Germany
  • Peter Uhd Jepsen
    Professor,
    Technical Univ. of Denmark, Denmark
  • Jan Van Deursen
    Cofounder,
    Unity Biotechnology, USA
  • Carlos E. Kenig
    Louis Block Distinguished
    Service Professor,
    Univ. of Chicago, USA
  • Guus Rijnders
    Professor,
    Univ. of Twente,
    Netherlands