Shin Sung-chul
| Shin Sung-chul 신성철 |
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| Born | July 19, 1952 Daejeon, South Korea |
| Nationality | South Korea |
| Fields | Spintronics, nanomagnetism |
| Institutions | KAIST |
| Alma mater | Northwestern University |
Shin Sung-chul (Hangul: 신성철; born July 17, 1952) 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).
Shin was educated in South Korea and the United States. He received his secondary education in Kyunggi High School. After he received B.S. degree in 1975 in the field of applied physics at Seoul National University, M.S. degree in 1977 in the field of condensed matter physics at KAIST, he carried out research at Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science till 1980. Then, he decided to continue his study in the United States and received his Ph.D. degree in 1984 in the field of materials physics at Northwestern University.
After Shin received his Ph.D. degree, he joined Eastman Kodak's Research Lab as a senior researcher and carried out research till 1989. At that time, the South Korean government urged scientists abroad to come back to South Korea and contribute to the development of national science and technology and nurturing young scientists and engineers.
Shin replied to the call and joined KAIST in 1989 as an assistant professor in the department of physics. In 2009, Shin became a chair professor of KAIST. During 22 years in KAIST, he held various academic positions. He served as a founding director of the Korea Institute for Advance Study (1996), director of Center for Nanospinics of Spintronic Materials (1998-2005), founding director of Institute of Nano Science & Technology (2001~2003) in KAIST. He also has held various academic positions of many other organizations such as a President of the Korean Magnetics Society(2009~2010), a Chairman of ICM2012(2009~2012), and a President of Korean Physical Society (2011~2012). Shin published over 320 journal papers, holds 37 patents, delivered 160 international and national invited academic talks, and supervised over 80 Postdoctoral, M.S., Ph.D. students.
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