Short Bio:
Mansung Yim is the Director of the Center for Nuclear Security Science and Policy Initiatives (NSSPI) and Professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University. Formerly, he served on the Nuclear Engineering faculty at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), North Carolina State University (NCSU) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was also a joint faculty between Oak Ridge National Lab (Global Nuclear Security Technology Division) and NCSU, a Sam Nunn International Security Fellow at Georgia Tech, a member of the North Carolina Science Advisory Board on Air Toxics Emissions, and a member of the Nuclear Nonproliferation External Steering Committee of Idaho National Laboratory.
Dr. Yim’s work aims at the safe and responsible use of nuclear technology with research activities covering nuclear nonproliferation/security, nuclear waste management, nuclear safety, and nuclear energy policy. While working at KAIST, Prof. Yim founded NEREC (Nuclear Nonproliferation Education and Research Center) and trained over 330 next-generation leaders in nuclear nonproliferation and nuclear policy from ~60 countries. He is currently a Senior Member of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, a member of the Scientific Program Committee of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), the Council of Advisors on Nuclear Education, Science, Technology and Policy of OECD/NEA, the International Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee of Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation, and the Korean National Academy of Engineering. He is an associate editor (Asia) of Nuclear Technology for the American Nuclear Society, a member of the editorial advisory board of Progress in Nuclear Energy and International Journal of Nuclear Security, and an editor at the Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament. He has over 370 technical publications in refereed journals (over 85) and national/international conference proceedings (over 290). He is the author of Nuclear Waste Management: Science, Technology, and Policy (textbook, Springer Nature), Energy Behind: Power that moves the world (MID Publisher, in Korean (co-author)), and Ecological Risk (Publishing House of the University of St. Petersburg, in Russian (co-author)). Dr. Yim is a graduate of Seoul National University (Nuclear Engineering, BS/MS), the University of Cincinnati (Nuclear Engineering, PhD), and Harvard University (Environmental Health Science, SM/ScD).