South Korea's leading national university, celebrated across engineering and computing, the natural sciences, medicine, economics and business, law, and the humanities.
24 professors and academic leaders celebrated so far, cited on every card. In pursuit of every professor, everywhere.
President and Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science and International Relations
As the 28th president he guides Seoul National University while teaching political science, the field he has served since 1995.
Professor
Department of Economics
He runs careful experiments to understand how real people decide and cooperate, bringing warmth and rigor to behavioral economics.
Professor
Department of Economics
A dedicated econometrician, he develops honest statistical tools that let economists test their ideas against the data.
Professor
Department of Economics
He studies the economies of transition and of North Korea with unusual care, illuminating a subject few can research so rigorously.
Professor Emeritus of Economics
Department of Economics
A monetary economist who taught at SNU for three decades and later led the university as its president, he is remembered warmly across generations of students.
SNU Distinguished Professor
School of Chemical and Biological Engineering
His pioneering heat-up process for making uniform nanoparticles opened new doors for medicine and energy, and he has shared it generously with the world.
Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
A pioneer of AI in Korea, he studies biological intelligence through his Biointelligence Lab and helps students imagine what machines can learn.
Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
He builds fast, scalable methods for mining massive graphs and tensors, teaching a generation how to find meaning in enormous data.
Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
His work on visual understanding and learning gives machines a richer sense of images and language, and his lab is a warm home for young researchers.
Professor and Dean of Data Science
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Through his Thunder research group he pushes the limits of parallel and high-performance computing while helping build SNU's data science community.
Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Combining first-principles theory with the lab bench, he designs next-generation battery materials and founded SNU's battery innovation hub.
Professor
School of Chemical and Biological Engineering
He designs materials and cells for safer, longer-lasting batteries, and shares his findings openly to speed the shift to clean energy.
Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
He applies deep learning to genomics and on-device AI, and his teaching has earned him recognition as a devoted mentor.
Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
He builds soft, wearable robots and sensors inspired by living muscle, directing SNU's Soft Robotics and Bionics Lab.
Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
She leads the Lab for Autonomous Robotics Research, teaching robots and aerial vehicles to plan and move intelligently on their own.
Professor
Department of Chemistry
He invents new chemistry to build polymers as precise as nature's own molecules, guiding students through the art of synthesis.
Professor
School of Biological Sciences
She traces how signals move between plant cells to shape roots and vascular tissue, running the Plant Systems Genetics Lab with care.
Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
He develops first-principles methods to predict the properties of real materials such as transition metal oxides, bridging theory and experiment.
Professor
Department of Mathematical Sciences
A world-renowned topologist, he constructed new families of symplectic four-manifolds and resolved long-standing open problems in geometry.
Professor of Internal Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine and Cancer Research Institute
Leading translational cancer research, she has helped extend the lives of patients with advanced breast cancer through landmark clinical trials.
Professor
Department of Philosophy
He brings the early modern philosophers to life for students, reading Descartes and Leibniz with patience and genuine delight.
Korbit Chaired Professor of Marketing
Business School
He models how consumers really choose, publishing in the top marketing journals while championing careful, data-driven scholarship.
Professor of Finance
Business School
He studies how information moves through markets and asset prices, sharing a scholar's honesty about what the evidence shows.
Professor
School of Law
He teaches international environmental and energy law, helping students think about how law can steward a shared planet.
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A celebration of the faculty and academic leaders of Seoul National University, assembled entirely from public information as an act of credit and gratitude. It is not a claim of endorsement, affiliation, sponsorship, or partnership by anyone featured or by the university. Every person is real and publicly documented, with a cited source of truth on their card; we never invent a person or a claim, and we prize accuracy over speed. Anyone featured can ask to be updated or removed at any time. Names and marks belong to their owners.