□ The Weinblum Foundation in Germany nominated Professor Yonghwan Kim of Seoul National University as the 2023-2024 Weinblum Memorial Lecturer.
- Professor George Weinblum is called the father of modern ship hydrodynamics. He produced as his students many pioneering scholars who established the theory of modern ship Hydrodynamics.
- To commemorate his achievements, the Weinbrum Foundation, supported by Germany and the United States, has designated one of the world's leading scholars as the Weinbrum Memorial Lecturer every two years since 1976.
□ Selection as a Weinbrum speaker is known as the highest honor in the field of ship hyrodnamics, as it recognizes him/her as the world's greatest scholar.
- The selection committee selects one person who is judged to have reached the highest level among scholars in various fields related to ship hydrodynamics, considering their academic level, academic contributions, and reputation.
- For this award, the selection committee directly searches for and decides on candidates without a separate letter of recommendation, so Professor Kim only found out that he was a candidate after receiving notification of his selection.
- Professor Yonghwan Kim will lecture at international conferences including in Hamburg, Germany, and Nantes, France, from November this year to next year, and the costs will be supported by the Weinbrum Foundation and the U.S. Navy.
□ Professor Kim Yong-hwan is the first Korean to be selected.
- Most of the Weinbrum Lecturers were the distinguished scholars from Europe or the United States, and Japan also produced five Lecturers, but no Korean has yet been selected.
- Professor Kim received a doctoral degree from MIT after graduating from the Department of Naval Architecture at Seoul National University. After working at the American Register and MIT, he moved to Seoul National University in 2004 and has been conducting various international research and activities.
- His main research areas include the motion and numerical analysis of ships and marine structures in waves, and his research on sloshing (the phenomenon of flow within a liquid container) is considered to be among the best in the world. It is a well-known fact that the Lloyd's Register Foundation of UK has donated over 4 billion won for his researches over the past 13 years. Also he has received support from multinational organizations such as the US, UK, and Japanese classification societies, as well as long-term support from the US Office of Naval Research (ONR).
□ Professor Kim is well-known domestically as a professor who provides many advices to shipbuilding and marine industry, and overseas as a highly influential scholar in academia.
- Currently, he is Vice-Chairman and Advisory Committee Group Chairman of the International Towing Tank Conference (ITTC), Co-Chairman of the International Workship on Water Waves and Floating Bodies, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Engineering for the Maritime Environment published in the UK. He also holds important roles in several international academic societies and journals.
- He has served as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering, UK, a visiting fellow at the University of Southampton, a specially-appointed professor at Osaka University, and a visiting professor at MIT. He also won the Marine Hydrodynamics Academic Award (CH KIM Award) at the International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineering held in Ottawa, Canada, in this June.
□ Professor Yonghwan Kim's nomination has a meaning beyond being recognized for his individual achievements.
- Korea's shipbuilding industry is competing for first or second place in the world, but the general assessment in academia is that it does not have this international status.
- With Professor Kim’s nomination, it is expect that the status of Korean academia in the field of naval architecture and ocean engineering takes a leap forward.
□ The Weinblum Foundation in Germany nominated Professor Yonghwan Kim of Seoul National University as the 2023-2024 Weinblum Memorial Lecturer.
- Professor George Weinblum is called the father of modern ship hydrodynamics. He produced as his students many pioneering scholars who established the theory of modern ship Hydrodynamics.
- To commemorate his achievements, the Weinbrum Foundation, supported by Germany and the United States, has designated one of the world's leading scholars as the Weinbrum Memorial Lecturer every two years since 1976.
□ Selection as a Weinbrum speaker is known as the highest honor in the field of ship hyrodnamics, as it recognizes him/her as the world's greatest scholar.
- The selection committee selects one person who is judged to have reached the highest level among scholars in various fields related to ship hydrodynamics, considering their academic level, academic contributions, and reputation.
- For this award, the selection committee directly searches for and decides on candidates without a separate letter of recommendation, so Professor Kim only found out that he was a candidate after receiving notification of his selection.
- Professor Yonghwan Kim will lecture at international conferences including in Hamburg, Germany, and Nantes, France, from November this year to next year, and the costs will be supported by the Weinbrum Foundation and the U.S. Navy.
□ Professor Kim Yong-hwan is the first Korean to be selected.
- Most of the Weinbrum Lecturers were the distinguished scholars from Europe or the United States, and Japan also produced five Lecturers, but no Korean has yet been selected.
- Professor Kim received a doctoral degree from MIT after graduating from the Department of Naval Architecture at Seoul National University. After working at the American Register and MIT, he moved to Seoul National University in 2004 and has been conducting various international research and activities.
- His main research areas include the motion and numerical analysis of ships and marine structures in waves, and his research on sloshing (the phenomenon of flow within a liquid container) is considered to be among the best in the world. It is a well-known fact that the Lloyd's Register Foundation of UK has donated over 4 billion won for his researches over the past 13 years. Also he has received support from multinational organizations such as the US, UK, and Japanese classification societies, as well as long-term support from the US Office of Naval Research (ONR).
□ Professor Kim is well-known domestically as a professor who provides many advices to shipbuilding and marine industry, and overseas as a highly influential scholar in academia.
- Currently, he is Vice-Chairman and Advisory Committee Group Chairman of the International Towing Tank Conference (ITTC), Co-Chairman of the International Workship on Water Waves and Floating Bodies, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Engineering for the Maritime Environment published in the UK. He also holds important roles in several international academic societies and journals.
- He has served as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering, UK, a visiting fellow at the University of Southampton, a specially-appointed professor at Osaka University, and a visiting professor at MIT. He also won the Marine Hydrodynamics Academic Award (CH KIM Award) at the International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineering held in Ottawa, Canada, in this June.
□ Professor Yonghwan Kim's nomination has a meaning beyond being recognized for his individual achievements.
- Korea's shipbuilding industry is competing for first or second place in the world, but the general assessment in academia is that it does not have this international status.
- With Professor Kim’s nomination, it is expect that the status of Korean academia in the field of naval architecture and ocean engineering takes a leap forward.