Yeon Soo Yeom

Prof. Yeon Soo Yeom is an associate professor in the Department of Radiological Science (undergraduate) / Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering (graduate) at Yonsei University, South  Korea. Prof. Yeom received a Ph.D. degree in 2017 from the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Hanyang University, South Korea. He subsequently worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Hanyang University before joining the Radiation Epidemiology Branch (REB) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) / National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA, as a visiting fellow in 2018. Prof. Yeom is an internationally recognized expert on computational radiation dosimetry using computational human phantoms and Monte Carlo particle transport simulation. His doctoral thesis focused on the development of new adult reference computational phantoms for the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP), known as Mesh-type Reference Computational Phantoms (MRCPs), which were released with ICRP Publication 145 (2020). Prof. Yeom is currently a member of the ICRP Committee 2 (Doses from Radiation Exposure). He has served as a member of six ICRP Task Groups (90, 96, 103, 113, 128, and 130), which are working for the development of the ICRP reference phantoms and production of the ICRP reference dose coefficients, contributing to four ICRP Publications (143, 144, 145, and 156) so far. Prof. Yeom has also been very productive and recognized in his research, publishing about 90 peer-reviewed journal papers, delivering more than 30 invited lectures at both domestic and international events, and receiving several honors and awards, including the Intramural Research Award (National Cancer Institute, 2019) and Charles Land Best Oral Presentation Award (Conference on Radiation and Health, 2018). Very recently, Prof. Yeom has been selected as the awardee for the 2025 ICRP Bo Lindell Medal for the Promotion of Radiological Protection.