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Professor Poong-Hyun Seong Appointed as the New President of the Korean Nuclear Society
Professor Poong-Hyun Seong of the Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering has been appointed as the 28th President of the Korean Nuclear Society (KNS). His presidency began on September 1, 2015 and will last one year.
Professor Seong graduated from the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Seoul National University, Korea, and received his master’s and doctoral degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States.
He has filled various positions in the field of nuclear engineering, including a commissioner of the Nuclear Safety and Security Commission of Korea, manager of the Korean branch of the American Nuclear Society (ANS), and head of the Human Factors and Instrumentation and Controls Division of ANS.
At KNS, he served as the vice president as well as the Editor-in-Chief of its academic journal Nuclear Engineering and Technology.
The Korean Nuclear Society was established in 1969 to promote academic and technical research in nuclear engineering and develop safe and sustainable nuclear power. It is composed of more than 4,200 active members from ten research fields and has published the journal Nuclear Engineering and Technology since 2007.
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KNS" International Journal Registered as SCIE
KNS" International Journal Registered as SCIE
International journal ‘Nuclear Engineering and Technology’, published by the Korean Nuclear Society (KNS, President Si-Hwan Kim) under the supervision of Poong Hyun Seong, a professor of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering of KAIST, has been made a member of Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) administrated by Thomson Scientific.
Thomson Scientific has notified such decision on April 14 and revealed the actual thesis title index will officially be notified within this year.
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