Kim Jin-Sung

Jinsung Kim received the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering, KAIST. He started his career in the field of radiation oncology in 2007. He has gained clinical experience with proton therapy, the next generation of cancer treatment, for 10 years in the field. In 2009, he joined the Department of Radiation Oncology, Samsung Medical Center, as a Clinical Professor, where he contributed the advanced image guided proton scanning therapy. In 2016, he joined the Department of Radiation Oncology, Yonsei University, as an Assistant Professor and the Chief Physicist. He is carrying out various outstanding studies with researchers from the field of medical physics, which requires imperative fusion of medicine and engineering. He currently focuses on the research which involves the overlapping of medical imaging and radiation therapy. In addition, with 10 years of experience in proton therapy, he is in the front line of commissioning the very first heavy-ion treatment system in South Korea. He took a leading role in establishing the international cooperation with relative associations and his current working body. With these advantages, he was nominated as a member of the Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology. We expect to be able to witness a devastating increase not only in various forms of exchange with our members worldwide but also in research results between multidisciplinary courses. Dr. Kim is a member of the Korean Society of Radiation Oncology, American Association of Physicists in Medicine, and Korean Physical Society. Being acknowledged in the academia, he serves for the academy as a Board Member and was appointed as the Secretary General for the Korean Society of Medical Physics in 2011.