Shin Seong-cheol, former president of KAIST, obtained the Italian Nationwide Friendship Medal

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2024-05-31 10:19:06

Shin Seong-cheol, former president of KAIST

Italian President Sergio Mattarella awards former KAIST President Shin Seong-cheol with the Order of the Italian Star (Ordine di Stella d’Italia), Italy’s nationwide goodwill ornament. Former KAIST President Shin Seong-cheol is at present the Republic of Korea’s Science and Expertise Cooperation Ambassador, and has been serving as Korea’s Science and Expertise Cooperation Ambassador. The medal shall be awarded on the Italian Nationwide Day reception on June 3 hosted by Italian Ambassador to Korea Emilia Gatto.

This award displays Italy’s curiosity in selling Korea-Japan science and know-how cooperation and acknowledges Ambassador Shin Seong-cheol’s contributions to date. Shin Seong-cheol, Ambassador for Science and Expertise Cooperation, has had steady and productive collaboration with the Italian Embassy in Korea. Specifically, it contributed decisively to holding the 2023 Korea-Italy Metaverse and Ethics Symposium, collectively hosted with the Nationwide Meeting of the Republic of Korea and the Metaverse Alliance. As well as, it performed a key function in concluding three MOUs for cooperation in fundamental science, superior know-how, and aerospace, which had been signed throughout Italian President Sergio Mattarella’s state go to to Korea in November final yr.

The medal awarded to Ambassador for Science and Expertise Cooperation Shin Seong-cheol this time is the ‘Ordine di Stella d’Italia’, which is awarded to Italians and foreigners who’ve contributed to exchanges between Italy and particular nations. The recipient of the award is chosen by suggestion from the Italian Minister of Overseas Affairs and Cooperation to the President of Italy after session with the Medal Advisory Committee. The Order of Friendship of the Italian Republic takes the type of a knight, and the medal bestowed to Ambassador for Science and Expertise Cooperation Shin Seong-cheol is a knight (Cavaliere).

Shin Seong-cheol, Ambassador for Science and Expertise Cooperation of the Republic of Korea, graduated from the Division of Utilized Physics at Seoul Nationwide College, obtained a grasp’s diploma from KAIST in 1977, and a doctorate in supplies physics from Northwestern College in 1984. Shin Seong-cheol, Ambassador for Science and Expertise Cooperation, is a world-renowned authority within the discipline of nanomagnetism and an revolutionary chief in nurturing expertise in science and engineering. Shin Seong-cheol, Ambassador for Science and Expertise Cooperation, has to date printed over 300 papers and registered 37 patents. He has additionally given greater than 400 lectures to professionals and most people and mentored greater than 80 post-doctoral and grasp’s diploma college students.

Shin Seong-cheol, Ambassador for Science and Expertise Cooperation, served as the primary and second president of the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Expertise (DGIST), the sixteenth president of KAIST, the president of the Korean Bodily Society, and the vice-chairman (presidential chairman) of the President’s Nationwide Science and Expertise Advisory Council. He serves because the Republic of Korea’s Ambassador for Science and Expertise Cooperation, appointed by the President in November 2022.

Photograph by Reporter Park So-gi, Press Workplace of the Italian Embassy in Korea

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2024-05-31 10:19:06

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