Vice President Research - Yoon Shin Kim
Yoon Shin Kim is presently a professor of environmental health and air pollution at Hanyang University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea since 1986. He holds two doctoral degrees of Doctor of Health Sciences in Human Ecology from University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (1978) and Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from the University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, USA (1985).
Professor Kim’s research interest is attempting to more specifically identify exposure assessment for chemical and physical characteristics of those indoor and outdoor air pollutants responsible for examining possible adverse health effects. Currently he has been involving in the Korea Ministry of Environment Project to assess the possible health impacts of indoor air pollution in buildings related to climate change phenomena. He published more 200 papers and seven books (including co-authors) in various fields. He has initiated indoor air and environmental health programs in Korea for Korean academia, governments, and industrial settings since the late 1980. Thus he contributed to setting many Korea regulations and standards of outdoor and indoor air pollution. He has been working as Co-Chairman of the Inter-Governmental Committee on Asbestos Control Policy in Korea since 2006.
He has served as an international scientific committee member in many international conferences on indoor air seminars including HB2009 (2009) and ROOMVENT (2009) and has served as an organizing committee member in many international conferences and symposiums including the 1st Korea-US Governmental Environmental Symposium (1987), Int. Symposium on RA-RM (1988-90), World Air Congress- IUAPPA (1999), Annual Int. Seminar on IAQ by the Korea Air Cleaning Association (since 2000), the 1st Asian Forum on Indoor Air Quality (2007), World Conference on Building Management (2009), and ISES-ISEE (2010) on indoor /outdoor air, environmental health, and risk assessment during last 25 years in Korea.
He has served many domestic and foreign professional activities, such as, a Honorary President (now), Founder and Former President of the Korean Society of Indoor Environment (KOSIE/www.kosie.or.kr), and Former President of the Korean Society of Atmospheric Environment (KOSAE), Senior Advisor, Korea Aerosol Society (2004-present) and Korea Society for Health Information and Statistics (2004-present), Vice President of the Korean Environmental Health Association (1989-2003), International Councilor Member of the International Society of Exposure Analysis (1991-2004), Advisory Member of WHO International EMF Project (1996-2000), WHO International Radon Project (2007-2008), and many other memberships. Prof. Kim has been a member of the ISIAQ and attended Indoor Air Conference since 1984 (Stockholm). Also he is a Fellow of the ISIAQ Academy since 2011.
He was awarded a Prominent Academia-Industry Professorship from Hanyang University (2010, 2011), a Korea Government Order (2008) from the Korea Ministry of Environment (KMOE), Achievement Award from the Korea Ministry of Education and Science (KMOES), International Environmental Award (2006) from Joint Newspapers of Chosun (Korea) and Mainichi (Japan), Presidential Award (2003) on contribution to Environmental Conservation from the KMOE and a Seoul Mayor Award (2002) on contribution to Air Environmental Technology from the Seoul Metropolitan Government.
