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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.

2024 Selection Committee

Physics and
Mathematics
 

  • Hyungju Park
    Chairman
    Distinguished Professor Ajou Univ.
  • Dae Joon Kang
    Professor
    Sungkyunkwan Univ.
  • Inkyu Park
    Professor
    Univ. of Seoul
  • Yong-Geun Oh
    Director, IBS-CGP
    & Professor, POSTECH
  • Fabian Rotermund
    Professor
    KAIST
  • Jinhyoung Lee
    Professor
    Hanyang Univ.
  • Paul McEuen
    Professor
    Cornell Univ., USA
  • Peter Sarnak
    Professor
    Princeton Univ., USA

Chemistry and
Life Sciences
 

  • Jinwoo Cheon
    Chairman
    H.G. Underwood Professor Yonsei Univ.
  • Kyungjae Myung
    Distinguished
    Professor UNIST
  • Mu-Hyun Baik
    Professor
    KAIST
  • Sven Lidin
    Professor
    Lund Univ., Sweden
  • Aaron Ciechanover
    Distinguished Research
    Professor Technion, Israel
  • Young Ho Rhee
    Professor
    POSTECH
  • Hee-Jung Choi
    Professor
    Seoul National Univ.
  • Cheol-Sang Hwang
    Eminent Professor
    Korea Univ.

Engineering
 
 

  • Sang Yup Lee
    Chairman
    Distinguished Professor KAIST
  • Chulwoo Kim
    Professor
    Korea Univ.
  • Sung-Hoon Ahn
    Professor
    Seoul National Univ.
  • Yang Yang
    Chair Professor
    UCLA, USA
  • Chong Seung Yoon
    Professor
    Hanyang Univ.
  • Sung-Bae Cho
    Distinguished Professor
    Yonsei Univ.
  • Chenyang Lu
    Chair Professor
    Washington Univ., USA
  • Krishna Saraswat
    Professor
    Stanford Univ., USA

Medicine
 
 

  • Suk Woo Nam
    Chairman
    Professor Catholic Univ.
  • Nils-Goran Larsson
    Professor
    Karolinska Institute, Sweden
  • Randy Schekman
    Professor
    UC Berkeley, USA
  • Matthew Heiden
    Professor
    MIT, USA
  • Jee-Yin Ahn
    Professor
    Sungkyunkwan Univ.
  • Seock-Ah Im
    Professor
    Seoul National Univ.
  • Jae-Ho Cheong
    Professor
    Yonsei Univ.
  • Chul Hyun Joo
    Professor
    Univ. of Ulsan

The Arts
 
 

  • Seung-chan Hong
    Chairman
    Professor Korea National Univ. of Arts
  • Seongwoo Kwon
    Professor
    Sookmyung Women’s Univ.
  • Heeduk Ra
    Professor
    Seoul National Univ. of Science & Technology
  • Jung-Ah Woo
    Professor
    POSTECH
  • Jinsang Yoo
    Professor
    Kaywon Univ. of Art & Design
  • Yun-Yeong Lee
    Professor
    Yonsei Univ.
  • Injoo Chang
    Dance Critic
     

Community Service
 
 

  • Do Seon Eur
    Chairman
    Professor Korea Univ.
  • Ok Sik Park
    Chairman
    Global Good Friends
  • Jung Min Park
    Professor
    Seoul National Univ.
  • Sungkyu Lee
    Professor
    Soongsil Univ.
  • Jin-yeong Lee
    Editorial Writer
    Dong-A Ilbo Daily
  • Yong Hyun Jo
    Lawyer
    Lawfirm Class Hankyul
  • Hyunju Cho
    Executive Director
    Global Civic Sharing

2024 Foreign Advisory Scholars

  • Gregory C. Fu
    Professor,
    California Institute of Technology,USA
  • Michael Harris
    Professor,
    Columbia Univ., USA
  • Shaul Mukamel
    Distinguished Professor,
    UC Irvine,USA
  • Graham R. Fleming
    Professor,
    UC Berkeley,USA
  • Majed Chergui
    Honorary Professor,
    EPFL,Swiss
  • Subir Sarkar
    Professor Emeritus,
    Univ. of Oxford, UK
  • Nicolas Gisin
    Professor Emeritus,
    Univ. of Geneva, Swiss
  • Mark Horowitz
    Professor,
    Stanford Univ., USA
  • Xuemin Shen
    Professor,
    Univ. of Waterloo, Canada
  • Daniel Mucida
    Professor,
    The Rockefeller Univ., USA
  • Michel Ledoux
    Professor Emeritus,
    Univ. of Toulouse, France
  • R. Stanley Williams
    Professor,
    Texas A&M Univ., USA
  • David A. Nicewicz
    Kenan Distinguished
    Professor, Univ. of North Carolina, USA
  • Ben E. Black
    Professor,
    Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA
  • Eilika Weber-Ban
    Professor,
    ETH Zurich, Swiss
  • Robert W. Heath
    Professor,
    UC San Diego, USA
  • Bruno Silva-Santos
    Professor,
    Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal
  • Andrea Musacchio
    Director, Max Planck
    Institute of Molecular Physiology, Germany
  • Rui P. Martins
    Chair Professor,
    Univ. of Macau, China
  • Vijay Rathinam
    Associate Professor,
    Univ. of Connecticut, USA
  • Antonio Torralba
    Professor,
    MIT, USA
  • Richard Zare
    Marguerite Blake Wilbur
    Professor, Stanford Univ., USA
  • Vincent Poor
    Michael Henry Strater Univ.
    Professor, Princeton Univ., USA
  • Andrew G. Bowie
    Professor,
    Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
  • Masahiro Teshima
    Professor,
    Max Planck Institute of Physics, Germany
  • Bill O’Neill
    Professor,
    Univ. of Cambridge, UK
  • Jan Van Deursen
    Cofounder,
    Unity Biotechnology, USA
  • Michael Maurizi
    Scientist Emeritus,
    National Institutes of Health, USA
  • Sarkis K. Mazmanian
    Professor,
    California Institute of Technology, USA
  • Evan Eichler
    Professor,
    Univ. of Washington, USA
  • Jun Ye
    Professor,
    Univ. of Colorado Boulder, USA
  • Jen Sheen
    Professor,
    Harvard Medical School, USA
  • Terry Rudolph
    Professor,
    Imperial College London, UK
  • Ofer Zeitouni
    Professor,
    Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
  • Jonathan Kipnis
    Professor,
    Washington Univ., USA
  • Theodor W. Hänsch
    Professor, Ludwig Maximilian
    Univ. of Munich, Germany
  • Oliver Graydon
    Chief Editor,
    Nature Photonics, UK
  • John F. Hartwig
    Professor,
    UC Berkeley, USA
  • Paul Jarvis
    Professor,
    Univ. of Oxford, UK
  • Wojciech Samek
    Professor,
    Technical Univ. of Berlin, Germany
  • Judy Van de Water
    Professor,
    UC Davis, USA
  • Franco Maloberti
    Professor,
    Pavia Univ., Italy
  • Wendy Bickmore
    Professor,
    Univ. of Edinburgh, UK
  • Chao-Yang Lu
    Professor, Univ. of
    Science and Technology of China, China
  • Peter J. de Groot
    Scientist Emeritus,
    Zygo Corporation, USA
  • Jürgen Ruland
    Professor,
    Technical Univ. of Munich, Germany
  • Karl-Heinz Kampert
    Professor,
    Univ. of Wuppertal, Germany
  • Henri Darmon
    Distinguished James McGill
    Professor, McGill Univ., Canada
  • Yun Chiu
    Erik Jonsson Distinguished
    Professor, Univ. of Texas, USA
  • Casper Hoogenraad
    Vice President,
    Genentech, USA
  • Jose M. Pardo
    Researcher,
    Spanish National Research Council, Spain
  • Ngô Bảo Châu
    Francis and Rose Yuen
    Distinguished Service Professor, Univ. of Chicago, USA
  • Kathy McCoy
    Professor,
    Univ. of Calgary, Canada
  • Guus Rijnders
    Professor,
    Univ. of Twente, Netherlands
  • Ian A. Walmsley
    Provost,
    Imperial College London, UK
  • Klaus-Robert Müller
    Professor,
    Technical Univ. of Berlin, Germany
  • Jean-Marc Triscone
    Professor,
    Univ. of Geneva, Swiss
  • Terence Tao
    Professor,
    UCLA, USA