Prof. Yun Hui-suk,  

Director of Advanced Bio and Healthcare Materials Research Division, 

Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS)

Representative Professor of University of Science & Technology (UST)

Hui-suk Yun holds a Ph. D. in Materials Science Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan. She completed her postdoctoral research at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST, Japan) and then began working as a lecturer at the Consolidated Research Institute for Advanced Science and Medical Care at Waseda University, Japan. Currently, she is the director of the Advanced Bio and Healthcare Materials Research Division at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) and a representative professor at the University of Science & Technology (UST) in the Department of Materials Science. Furthermore, she is an advisory committee member for the Ministry of Science and ICT, Korea, and a medical devices committee member for the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, Korea. She was also working for the Korean government as a deliberative council member on the Presidential Advisory Council of Science and Technology. Her research interests include the technologies for ceramic additive manufacturing, including materials, processes, and systems; porous ceramics; and bioceramics for hard tissue regeneration. She has 43 domestic patents, 11 international patents, and has published over 84 SCI papers. She has also written 7 technology transfer contracts relating to ceramic additive manufacturing. Evidently, she is an accomplished academic who has received many honors, such as the 2024 Woman in Science and Technology of the Year, commended by the Ministry of Science and ICT Korea; the fellowship of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS); the 2023 plenary award from the Engineering Ceramic Division of ACerS; the best performance award for running royalty from the Korean Intellectual Property Office in 2021; the 100 Most Distinguished Researchers Achievement from the Ministry of Science and ICT; and the World’s Top Technology Prize from the Korea Institute of Materials Science