Shin Sung-chul

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Shin Sung-chul 신성철
Born	July 19, 1952 Daejeon, South Korea
Nationality	South Korean
Alma mater	Seoul National University KAIST Northwestern University
Awards	Top Scientist and Technologist Award of Korea, South Korea (2012) Science Award, National Academy of Sciences, South Korea (2009) Fellow, American Physics Society (2009) Fellow, Korean Academy of Science and Technology (2000)
Scientific career
Fields	Spintronics, nanomagnetism
Institutions	KAIST
Korean name
Hangul	신성철
Revised Romanization	Shin Seongcheol
McCune–Reischauer	Shin Sŏngch'ŏl

Shin Sung-chul (Korean: 신성철; born July 19, 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).